Quotes About Morality

I will never tell anyone to pick up a gun. But I will pray for the man who picks up a gun, pray that he will be less cruel than he might otherwise have been.

This man, although he may not actually have committed the crime attributed to him, is nevertheless morally culpable, because he is the enemy of our existing institutions

Men are virtuous because women are; women are virtuous from necessity.

The man that blushes is not quite a brute.

In vain we build the city if we do not first build the man.

The virtue of man is, in a word, the great proof of God.

The man who commits immorality does so because he thinks it will maximize pleasure if he can minimize the pain by keeping it secret.

The people I have no feeling for are professional killers. But I count that man no worse than a governor who won't commute a death sentence because it's unpolitical.

Being your own man does not mean taking advantage of anyone else.

In every ascetic morality man worships a part of himself as God and for that he needs to diabolize the other part.

If a man does what is good, let him do it again; let him delight in it; happiness is the outcome of good.

Bad men do what good men only dream.

There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it.

If women were as fastidious as men, morally or physically, there would be an end of the race.

There are no perfectly honorable men; but every true man has one main point of honor and a few minor ones.

For religion all men are equal, as all pennies are equal, because the only value of any of them is that they bear the image of the king.

Man's conscience is the oracle of God.

Man is oftentimes weak-minded enough to be caught in the snare of greed and honeyed words.

I should wish to die if a man who is impure should parade his purity in front of me.

Man's shortcomings and sins are all due to the substance of the body and not to its form; while all his merits are exclusively due to his form.

What is the chief end of man?-to get rich. In what way?-dishonestly if we can; honestly if we must.

Moral principles have lost their distinctiveness. For modern man, absolute right and absolute wrong are a matter of what the majority is doing.

Nothing can make a man truly great but being truly good, and partaking of God's holiness.

The easiest way to destroy a man's faith is to destroy his morality.