Morality Quotes

"Chronic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable sentiment." "We have in fact two kinds of morality side by side: one which we preach but do not practice, and another which we practice but seldom preach" "There is no man so good, who, were he to submit all his thoughts and actions to the laws, would not deserve hanging ten times in his life." "Virtue is not given by money, but that from virtue comes money and every other good of man, public as well as private" "Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws" "The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his" "In some sort of crude sense which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose" "Society is produced by our wants and government by our wickedness" "I think probably kindness is my number one attribute in a human being I'll put it before any of the things like courage or bravery or generosity or anything else" "All that makes existence valuable to any one depends on the enforcement of restraints upon the actions of other people." "Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life." "The omission of good is no less reprehensible than the commission of evil." "Morality is temporary, wisdom is permanent" "We do things because they are just and right" "The corruption of the best things gives rise to the worst"