Quotes about morality
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Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking.
H. L. Mencken1880–1956A Mencken Chrestomathy (1949)
Samuel Johnson1709–1784An Introduction to the Political State of Great BritainThere is one thing alone that stands the brunt of life throughout its course: a quiet conscience.
Euripides481–407 BCHippolytus (428 B.C.), l. 435.When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I’ve never tried before.
I never believed there was one code of morality for a public and another for a private man.
It is noble to be good; it is still nobler to teach others to be good—and less trouble.
If we do not help a man in trouble, it is as if we caused the trouble.
Life—the way it really is—is a battle not between bad and good but between bad and worse.
America is great because she is good. If America ceases to be good, America will cease to be great.
?UnattributedOften credited to Alexis de TocquevilleLiberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith.
