Quotes About Morality

Satan is inconsistent. He persuades a man not to go to a synagogue on a cold morning; yet when the man does go, he follows him into it.

How can you render the duties of justice to men when they may destroy you?

There cannot any one moral rule be proposed whereof a man may not justly demand a reason.

I wonder if it's ethical to watch a man with binoculars and a long-focus lens? D'ya suppose it's ethical even if you prove that he didn't commit a crime? I'm not much on rear window ethics.

Extol not riches then, the toil of fools, The wise man's cumbrance, if not snare, more apt To slacken virtue, and abate her edge, Than prompt her to do aught may merit praise.

To brand man with infamy, and let him free, is an absurdity that peoples our forests with assassins.

Multitudes think they like to do evil; yet no man ever really enjoyed doing evil since God made the world.

Whether we force the man's property from him by pinching his stomach, or pinching his fingers, makes some difference anatomically; morally, none whatsoever.

Adherence to men, is often disloyalty to principles.

When men live as if there were no God, it becomes expedient for them that there should be none.

There is no man that is knowingly wicked but is guilty to himself; and there is no man that carries guilt about him but he receives a sting in his soul.

No man e'er felt the halter draw, With good opinion of the law.

It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished virtues.

Men of wit, learning and virtue might strike out every offensive or unbecoming passage from plays.

When men grow virtuous in their old age, they only make a sacrifice to God of the devil's leavings.

He that calls a man ungrateful sums up all the veil that a man can be guilty of.

Hunting is not a proper employment for a thinking man.

A man improves more by reading the story of a person eminent for prudence and virtue, than by the finest rules and precepts of morality.

Sweet are the slumbers of the virtuous man.

There is no law that says a man who earned a hundred million dollars in his first half-dozen years on the job has to be a decent human being, but Mike Eisner is that and more.

Not only commission makes a sin. A man is guilty of all those sins he hateth not. If I cannot avoid all, yet I will hate all.

A good man is kinder to his enemy than bad men are to their friends.

The Bible remained for me a book of books, still divine - but divine in the sense that all great books are divine which teach men how to live righteously.

God judges men according to the use they make of the light which He gives them.