Quotes About Morality

When a man seduces a woman, it should, I think, be termed a left-handed marriage.

If a railroad is bent, the train shall turn over; if a man's character is bent, he shall turn over just like that train.

The great man does not think beforehand of his words that they may be sincere, nor of his actions that they may be resolute- he simply speaks and does what is right.

There is no man so good that if he placed all his actions and thoughts under the scrutiny of the laws, he would not deserve hanging ten times in his life.

The confidence in another man's virtue is no light evidence of a man's own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.

Therefore, vegetarianism alone can give us the quality of com-passion, which distinguishes man from the rest of the animal world.

The abortionist I worked for, he's a very greedy man, a selfish man.

How many honest men do you know? Take the sinners away from the saints, you're lucky to end up with Abraham Lincoln.

Woe to the man who tries to stretch the imagination of man He shall be mocked he shall be scourged by the blinkered guardians of morality.

There is no man suddenly either excellently good or extremely evil, but grows either as he holds himself up in virtue or lets himself slide to viciousness.

It is as expedient that a wicked man be punished as that a sick man be cured by a physician; for all chastisement is a kind of medicine.

Every unjust man is unjust against his will.

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

Moral habits, induced by public practices, are far quicker in making their way into men's private lives, than the failings and faults of individuals are in infecting the city at large.

Cato requested old men not to add the disgrace of wickedness to old age, which was accompanied with many other evils.

The greater a man is in power above others, the more he ought to excel them in virtue. None ought to govern who is not better than the governed.

Is it right to shoot the poor prostitute or a woman who is unfaithful to her husband, or a man who loves another man?

Sin is a thing that writes itself across a man's face. It cannot be concealed.

The man with a clear conscience probably has a poor memory.

According to the state of a man's conscience, so do hope and fear on account of his deeds arise in his mind.

By unrighteousness man prospers, gains what appears desirable, conquer enemies, but perishes a the root.

I know what a good man is because I saw it in my father.

Winston Churchill was a man of blood and a politico without principle, whose apotheosis serves to corrupt every standard of honesty and morality in politics and history.

There is a good ear, in some men, that draws supplies to virtue out of very indifferent nutriment.