Benjamin Franklin Quotes

It is better to suffer injustice than to do it.

Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.

I've definitely stolen a lot of things.

I always felt like I was doing the right thing.

I shouldn't steal in this world.

It is not righteousness to outrage

One who steals has no right to complain if he is robbed.

The giving of riches and honors to a wicked man is like giving strong wine to him that hath a fever.

It is not a man's duty, as a matter of course, to devote himself to the eradication of any, even the most enormous wrong; he may still properly have other concerns to engage him; but it is his duty, at least, to wash his hands of it, and, if he gives it no thought longer, not to give it practically his support. If I devote myself to other pursuits and contemplations, I must first see, at least, that I do not pursue them sitting upon another man's shoulders.

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it.

Know that morality is a curb, not a spur.

He that steals an egg will steal an ox.

Pay and the story rolls. Steal and the story folds. No stealing from the blind newsboy.

Throwing acid is wrong... in some people's eyes.

Throw away profit and greed, and there won't be any thieves.

Every wicked man is in ignorance as to what he ought to do, and from what to abstain, and it is because of error such as this that men become unjust and, in a word, wicked.

Hee wrongs not an old man that steales his supper from him.

You cannot do wrong without suffering wrong.

Ethical existence [is] the highest manifestation of spirituality.

No client ever had money enough to bribe my conscience or to stop its utterance against wrong, and oppression.

Many among men are they who set high the show of honor, yet break justice.

Woe unto the world because of offenses; for it must needs be that offenses come, but woe to that man by whom the offense cometh.

Faith teaches that there is a right and wrong beyond mere opinion or desire. Most importantly, it teaches us that freedom is not an end in itself, that how freedom is exercised matters as much as freedom itself

Morality, thou deadly bane,Thy tens o' thousands thou has slain!