morality Quotes

Instead of noblemen, let us have noble villages of men.

If an injustice requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law. Let your life be a counter-friction to stop the government machine.

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.

If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.

How does it become a man to behave towards the American government today? I answer, that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it.

It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right.

Truth is always in harmony with herself, and is not concerned chiefly to reveal the justice that may consist with wrong-doing.

Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.

After the first blush of sin comes its indifference.

As for doing good; that is one of the professions which is full. Moreover I have tried it fairly and, strange as it may seem, am satisfied that it does not agree with my constitution.