Mark Twain Quotes

In youth, it is common to measure right and wrong by the opinion of the world, and in age, to act without any measure but interest, and to lose shame without substituting virtue.

I should wish to die if a man who is impure should parade his purity in front of me.

Hypocrisy is bad, but it's not the worst vice in the world. If I declared “murder is wrong” and then killed somebody, I would hope that the top count against me would be homicide, not hypocrisy. Liberal elites ' particularly in Hollywood ' believe that hypocrisy is the gravest sin in the world, which is why they advocate their own lifestyles for the entire world: Sleep with whomever you want, listen to your own instincts, be true to yourself, blah, blah, blah. Our fear of hypocrisy is forcing us to live in a world where gluttons are fine, so long as they champion gluttony.

Morality is seldom a safe guide for human conduct.

Conscience and cowardice are really the same things, Basil. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all.

I consider myself a fairly ethical individual while I do have a lot of dichotomies within me. We're all victims of our own hypocrisy at times.

In day-to-day life, you have stimulus to behave unethically, but in the long term, it always pays off to be ethical.

Ethical is 'I'll wait and do what's right even in the hardest times and even if I have to give up gains to do it.'

If you do not know the laws of right conduct, you cannot form your character.

Obama hates selling. He thinks people should just accept the right thing to do.

Ordinary morality is only for ordinary people.

A man is not good or bad for one action.

What matters is that you are doing what you think is right based on the standards which you hold.

Action indeed is the sole medium of expression for ethics.

Nobody wakes up in the morning thinking, 'I'm a bad guy.' They think they're the right guy.

True character arises from a deeper well than religion.

I always felt like I was doing the right thing.

It is not true that people of high principle are ill-suited for politics.

There is nothing called negative character. The negativity and positivity exists in all of us.

Conscience is a man's compass, and though the needle sometimes deviates, though one often perceives irregularities in directing one's course by it, still one must try to follow its direction.

Sinners often speak the truth. And saints have led people astray. Examine what is said, not the one who says it.

The love of property and consciousness of right and wrong have conflicting places in our organization, which often makes a man's course seem crooked, his conduct a riddle.

In the majority of cases, conscience is an elastic and very flexible article

Every man's conscience is vile and depraved / You cannot depend on it to be your guide when it’s you who must keep it satisfied.

Morality, when vigorously alive, sees farther than intellect, and provides unconsciously for intellectual difficulties.