 It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted; precisely because most things are permitted and only a few things forbidden. Author: G.K. Chesterton |
| We are justified in enforcing good morals, for they belong to all mankind; but we are not justified in enforcing good manners, for good manners always mean our own manners. Author: G.K. Chesterton |
| False notions of liberty are strangely common. People talk of it as if it meant the liberty of doing whatever one likes - whereas the only liberty that a man, worthy of the name of man, ought to ask for, is, to have all restrictions, inward and outward, removed that prevent his doing what he ought. Author: Frederick W. Robertson |
| Of all the dispositions and habits which lead tp political prosperity, Religion and Morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man claim the tribute of Patriotism, who should labor to subvert these great Pillars. Author: George Washington |
| Bad seed is a robbery of the worst kind: for your pocket-book not only suffers by it, but your preparations are lost and a season passes away unimproved. Author: George Washington |
| Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle. Author: George Washington |
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| The consideration that human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected, will always continue to prompt me to promote the former by inculcating the practice of the latter. Author: George Washington |
| The devil may also make use of morality. Author: Karl Barth |
| I am not interested in power for power's sake, but I'm interested in power that is moral, that is right and that is good. Author: Martin Luther King, Jr. |
| If we are to go forward, we must go back and rediscover those precious values - that all reality hinges on moral foundations and that all reality has spiritual control. Author: Martin Luther King, Jr. |
| The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict. Author: Martin Luther King, Jr. |
| The limitation of riots, moral questions aside, is that they cannot win and their participants know it. Hence, rioting is not revolutionary but reactionary because it invites defeat. It involves an emotional catharsis, but it must be followed by a sense of futility. Author: Martin Luther King, Jr. |
