Quotes About Morality

It is true that wealth won't make a man virtuous, but I notice there ain't anybody who wants to be poor just for the purpose of being good.

Men who ape the saint and play the sinner.

Every crime will bring remorse to the man who committed it

Man, wretched man, whene'er he stoops to sin, Feels, with the act, a strong remorse within.

Most of the vices and mortal sins condemned today correspond to inclinations that were purely adaptive or at least harmless in primitive man

Good men are bad men's instructors, And bad men are good men's materials.

Wealth is a great sin in the eyes of God. Poverty is a great sin in the eyes of man.

A day will come in which men will look upon an animal's murder the same way they look today upon a man's murder.

It is not dirt but the fear of dirt which is the sign of man's degeneration, and it is dangerous to judge a man's physical and moral sanity by outside standards.

He had kept The whiteness of his soul, and thus men o'er him wept.

A man whose life has been dishonourable is not entitled to escape disgrace in death.

I think God rarely gives to one man, or one set of men, more than one great moral victory to win.

Men say I am a saint losing himself in politics. The fact is that I am a politician trying my hardest to become a saint.

The man who coerces another not to eat fish commits more violence than he who eats it.

Inability to tell good from evil is the greatest worry of man's life.

No man can be brave who thinks pain the greatest evil; nor temperate, who considers pleasure the highest good.

Men think they may justly do that for which they have a precedent.

And I must believe that man has the power to know the right, to choose between good and evil and know that his choice has made a difference.

Christianity alone inspires and guides progress; for the progress of man is movement toward God. and movement toward God wili ensure a gradual unfolding of all that exalts and adorns man.

A man's first duty is to his own conscience and honor; the party and country come second to that, and never first.

Conscience, man's moral medicine chest.

The law is not thrust upon man; it rests deep within him, to waken when the call comes.

Man must never be treated as a means to the end of the state, but always as an end within himself.

If none were to Marry, but Men of strict Vertue and Honour, I doubt the World would be but thinly peopled.