Quotes About Morality

Happy is the man who renounces everything which may bring a stain or burden upon his conscience

By the divine providence [animals] are intended for man's use... Hence it is not wrong for man to make use of them, either by killing or in any other way whatsoever.

Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.

Nakedness, hunger, distress of all kinds, death itself have been cheerfully suffered, when the heart was right. It is the feeling of injustice that is insupportable to all men.

If there be not a religious element in the relations of men, such relations are miserable and doomed to ruin.

It is well said, in every sense, that a man's religion is the chief fact with regard to him.

A man's conscience and his judgment is the same thing; and as the judgment, so also the conscience, may be erroneous.

No man is bound by the words themselves, either to kill himselfe, or any other man.

God grant that men of principle shall be our principal men.

Every honest man will suppose honest acts to flow from honest principles, and the rogues may rail without intermission.

The moral sense, or conscience, is as much part of a man as his leg or arm. It is given to all in a stronger or weaker degree.. It may be strengthened by exercise.

The moral sense is the first excellence of well-organized man.

Fill the seats of justice with good men, not so absolute in goodness as to forget what human frailty is.

No flattery, boy! an honest man cannot live by it; it is a little, sneaking art, which knaves use to cajole and soften fools withal.

Every religion is good that teaches man to be good; and I know of none that instructs him to be bad.

To politicize a man's tragic death is about as low as you can go, isn't it?

The man who is wise enough to know the right thing to do, who is good enough to wish to do only the right thing, and who is able and strong enough to do the right thing is a truly great man.

Many laws as certainly make men bad, as bad men make many laws.

I venture to say that every man who is not presumably incapacitated by some consideration of personal unfitness or of political danger is morally entitled to come within the pale of the Constitution.

Only the man who has enough good in him to feel the justice of the penalty can be punished; the others can only be hurt.

If thou wouldst conquer thy weakness, thou must never gratify it. No man is compelled to evil: his consent only makes it his. It is no sin to be tempted, but to be overcome.

Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues we write in water.

Two starving men cannot be twice as hungry as one; but two rascals can be ten times as vicious as one.

There live not three good men unhanged in England; and one of them is fat and grows old.