Quotes about morality
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Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.
George Washington1732–1799“Rules of Civility and Decent Behavior in Company and Conversation”, no. 57, in Jared Sparks, The Life of George Washington (London: Henry Colburn, 1839), Vol. II, p. 109.I say that a man must be certain of his morality for the simple reason that he has to suffer for it.
G. K. Chesterton1874–1936In The Illustrated London News (23 October 1909)
Ernest Hemingway1899–1961Death in the Afternoon (1932), Ch. 7
C. S. Lewis1898–1963The Abolition of Man- C. S. Lewis1898–1963Mere Christianity (1952), Book II, Chapter 2, “The Invasion”
To sit alone with my conscience will be judgment enough for me.
CSCharles William Stubbs“The Judgment of Conscience”, in Castles in the Air and Other Poems Old and New (London: J. M. Dent & Co., 1903), p. 6.- C. S. Lewis1898–1963The Problem of Pain
Benjamin Franklin1706–1790Poor Richard’s AlmanackThere are no moral phenomena at all, but only a moral interpretation of phenomena.
Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.
George Washington1732–1799“Circular to the States” (8 June 1783)
