morality Quotes

This avidity alone, of acquiring goods and possessions for ourselves and our nearest friends, is insatiable, perpetual, universal, and directly destructive of society.

The advantages found in history seem to be of three kinds, as it amuses the fancy, as it improves the understanding, and as it strengthens virtue.

Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principals.

I have written on all sorts of subjects... yet I have no enemies; except indeed all the Whigs, all the Tories, and all the Christians.

The rules of morality are not the conclusion of our reason.

It is a just political maxim, that every man must be supposed a knave.

Of all the tyrannies that affect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst.

The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.

Persecution is not an original feature in any religion; but it is always the strongly marked feature of all religions established by law.

My country is the world, and my religion is to do good.