Quotes About Morality

When he is best, he is a little worse than a man; and when he is worst, he is little better than a beast.

Every man has obligations which belong to his station. Duties extend beyond obligations, and direct the affections, desires, and intentions, as well as the actions.

One fact must be familiar to all those who have any experience of human nature - a sincerely religious man is often an exceedingly bad man.

The nature of man is evil; what is good in him is artificial.

Whether the gentleman is capable or not, he is loved all the same; conversely the petty man is loathed all the same.

The sin both of men and of angels was rendered possible by the fact that God gave us free will.

The man who does ill, ill must suffer too.

Virtuous and vicious every man must be, few in the extreme, but all in the degree.

To what extent is any given man morally responsible for any given act? We do not know

Any one prominent in affairs can always see when a man may steal a horse and when a man may not look over a hedge.

There are some jobs in which it is impossible for a man to be virtuous.

Indeed, we may go further and assert that anyone who does not delight in fine actions is not even a good man.

...for all men do their acts with a view to achieving something which is, in their view, a good.

A disciplined conscience is a man's best friend. It may not be his most amiable, but it is his most faithful monitor.

Morality is a code of black and white. When and if men attempt a compromise, it is obvious which side will necessarily lose and which will necessarily profit.

Let me give you a tip on a clue to men's characters: the man who damns money has obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it has earned it.

Is man an ape or an angel? Now I am on the side of the angels.

Boys and young men acquire readily the moral sentiments of their social milieu, whatever these sentiments may be.

Man is neither angel nor beast.

Men rarely see their own actions as unjustified.

You weren't a decent man and you didn't do your best. We none of us were and none of us did.

While the best men are guided by love, most mean are still goaded by fear.

Let no one flatter himself; of himself he is Satan. Let man take sin, which is his own, and leave righteousness with God.

The wise man applauds he who he thinks most virtuous; the rest of the world applauds the wealthy.