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I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.
Booker T. Washington1856–1915Up From Slavery (1901), Chapter XI: Making Their Beds Before They Could Lie On Them.
A man does what he must, in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures, and that is the basis of all human morality.
John F. Kennedy1917–1963Profiles in Courage (1956), 1964 Memorial Edition, p. 266
Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires.
Bertrand Russell1872–1970Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays (1918), Ch. 1: Mysticism and Logic
- Good & Evil
To know what is right and not to do it is the worst cowardice.
Confucius551–479 BCAnalects, Chapter II
Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.
George Washington1732–1799Letter to the Protestant Episcopal Church (19 August 1789) Scan at American Memory (Library of Congress).
- Happiness
Live so that you wouldn’t be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip.
Will Rogers1879–1935
- Virtue
Have no fear of robbers or murderers. They are external dangers, petty dangers. We should fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real robbers; vices the real murders. The great dangers are within us. Why worry about what threatens our heads or purses? Let us think instead of what threatens our souls.
Victor Hugo1802–1885
Laws are partly formed for the sake of good men, in order to instruct them how they may live on friendly terms with one another, and partly for the sake of those who refuse to be instructed, whose spirit cannot be subdued, or softened, or hindered from plunging into evil.
Plato429–349 BC
- Laws
The devil made me do it the first time, and after that I did it on my own.
Robert Fulghumborn 1937
Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.
Edmund Burke1729–1797Letter to the Sheriffs of Bristol (1777)
- Liberty
It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken.
Aristotle384–322 BC
It is strangely absurd to suppose that a million of human beings, collected together, are not under the same moral laws which bind each of them separately.
Thomas Jefferson1743–1826
The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught.
H. L. Mencken1880–1956Prejudices, Fourth Series, ch. 11 (1924)
No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.
Plato429–349 BCApology, 41c–e
- Good & Evil
I profoundly believe it takes a lot of practice to become a moral slob.
William F. Buckley Jr.1925–2008