Quotes About Morality

Weaklings are those who know the truth, but maintain it only as far as it is in their interest to do so, and apart from that forsake it.

Merely according to reason, nothing is just in itself, everything shifts with time. Custom is the whole of equity for the sole reason that it is accepted.

The virtue of a man ought to be measured not by his extraordinary exertions, but by his every-day conduct.

23] Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of morality will always console me for ignorance of physical science.

Can anything be more ridiculous than that a man should have the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of the sea, and because his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have none with him.

Noble deeds are most estimable when hidden.

There are only two kinds of men: righteous men who believe themselves sinners; the rest, sinners, who believe themselves righteous - Pascal

The strength of a man's virtue must not be measured by his efforts, but by his ordinary life.

Man without faith can know neither true good nor justice.

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it with religious conviction.

Christianity is strange: it requires human beings to recognize that they are vile and even abominable.

Let us then strive to think well; that is basic principle of morality. (54)

The strength of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts.

Ugly deeds are most estimable when hidden.

Il faut qu'on n'en puisse (dire), ni il est mathématicien, ni prédicateur, ni éloquent mais il est honnête homme. Cette qualité universelle me plaît seule.

Man is neither angel nor devil, and his tragedy is that he who tries too hard to play the first too often ends up as the second.

There are only two kinds of men: righteous men who believe themselves sinners; the rest, sinners, who believe themselves righteous. Pascal, Pensées

?tiinÈ›a lucrurilor exterioare nu m? poate consola de necunoaÈ™terea moralei în vremuri de am?r?ciune; dar È™tiinÈ›a moravurilor m? va consola întotdeauna de ignorarea È™tiinÈ›elor exterioare.

We do not sustain ourselves in virtue by our own strength, but by the balancing of two opposed vices, just as we remain upright amidst two contrary gales. Remove one of the vices, and we fall into the other.

Now therefore, kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman who has known a man by sleeping with him. But all the young girls who have not known a man by sleeping with him, keep alive for yourselves. (Numbers 31:17–18)

The Genovese story has been used to highlight the fact that for many it is preferable to avoid controversy than to step forward and attempt to do the right thing.

To live outside the law you must be honest.

Money doesn't talk, it swears.

They say that patriotism is the last refuge to which a scoundrel clings steal a little and they throw you in jail. Steal a lot and then they make you king.