Quotes About Morality

If I relegate impossible Salvation to the prop room, what remains? A whole man, composed of all men and as good as all of them and no better than any.

Men equally honest, equally devoted to their fatherland, are momentarily separated by different conceptions of their duty.

I derive no pleasure from prosecuting a man, even though I know he's guilty; do you think I could sleep at night or look at myself in the mirror in the morning if I hounded an innocent man?

The man who acts never has any conscience; no one has any conscience but the man who thinks

The happiness of man, as well as his dignity, consists in virtue.

Without ethics man has no future. This is to say mankind without them cannot be itself. Ethics determine choices and actions and suggest difficult priorities.

So over violent, or over civil that every man with him was God or Devil.

Unto each man comes a day when his favorite sins all forsake him, And he complacently thinks he has forsaken his sins.

All errors which a man is likely to commit against advice are far outweighed by the evil of allowing others to constrain him for his good.

I never killed a man I didn't have to.

Any man who'd make an X-rated movie ought to have to take his daughter to see it.

There are men who strike at liberty under the term licentiousness

Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, the post of honoris a private station.

If ridicule were employed to laugh men out of vice and folly, it might be of some use.

Garments that have once one rent in them are subject to be torn on every nail, and glasses that are once cracked are soon broken; such is man's good name once tainted with just reproach.

The man who has never been tempted doesn't know how dishonest he is.

A brave and passionate man will kill or be killed. A brave and calm man will always preserve life. Of these two which is good and which is harmful?

If a man has a right to be proud of anything, it is of a good action done as it ought to be, without any base interest lurking at the bottom of it.

Being a useful man has always seemed to me to be something truly hideous.

The Christian in me says it's wrong, but the corrections officer in me says, 'I love to make a grown man piss himself.'

I never killed a man who didn't need it.

The proper man understands equity, the small man profits.

That a man lives is because he is straight. That a man who dupes others survives is because he has been fortunate enough to be spared.

All men begin as good men. What they are taught as children, what is expected of them as young men, is either the armor about that goodness or the flaw that allows evil in.