Quotes About Morality

The world is upheld by the veracity of good men: they make the earth wholesome.

A nice state of affairs when a man has to indulge his vices by proxy.

Correct morality can only be derived from what man is — not from what do-gooders and well-meaning aunt Nellies would like him to be.

All my fears and cares are of this world; if there is another, an honest man has nothing to fear from it.

A prince can mak a belted knight, A marquis, duke, and a' that; But an honest man's aboon his might: Guid faith, he maunna fa' that.

A man is not moral because he is obedient through fear or ignorance. Morality lives in the realm of perceived obligation.

To make our morality center on forbidden acts is to defile the imagination and to introduce into our judgments of our fellow men a secret element of gusto.

Profane swearing never did any man any good. No man in the richer or wiser or happier for it.

The common people do not judge of vice or virtue by morality or immorality, so much as by the stamp that is set upon it by men of figure.

Considering how bad men are, it is wonderful how well they behave.

It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives.

You despise a man for avarice; but you do not hate him.

Sir, I do not call a gamester a dishonest man; but I call him an unsociable man, an unprofitable man. Gaming is a mode of transferring property without producing any intermediate good.

Rakes are more suspicious than honest men.

Commonplace though it may appear, this doing of one's duty embodies the highest ideal of life and character. There may be nothing heroic about it; but the common lot of men is not heroic.

If a man is not rising upward to be an angel, depend on it, he is sinking downward to be a devil.

It is a world not of angels but of angles, where men speak of moral principles but act on power principles; a world where we are always moral and our enemies always immoral.

Four things does a reckless man gain who covets his neighbor's wife - demerit, an uncomfortable bed, thirdly, punishment, and lastly, hell.

As soon as men know that they can kill without fear of punishment or blame, they kill; or at least they encourage killers with approving smiles.

Living or dead, to a good man there can come no evil.

He might be a man without character, but she was a woman without courage. Of the two, which was worse?

Never trust a man who says he is only a little crooked, and that the crookedness is exercised in your interest.

Avoid the base hypocrisy of condemning in one man what you pass over in silence when committed by another.

Some men can live up to their loftiest ideals without ever going higher than a basement.