Quotes About Morality

Stealing is a lazy man's way. Something for nothing, leaves you hell to pay.

As the purpose of comedy is to correct the vices of men, I see no reason why anyone should be exempt.

The man who has led a good life will find many allies.

Close your legs to married men.

If some beggar steals a bridle he'll be hung by a man who's stolen a horse. There's no surer justice in the world than that which makes the rich thief hang the poor one.

A man who permits his honor to be taken, permits his life to be taken.

The greatest penalty of evil-doing is to grow into the likeness of a bad man.

If you ask: What is the good of education? The answer is easy: Education makes good men and good men act nobly.

As a wicked man I am a complete failure. Why, there are lots of people who say I have never really done anything wrong in the whole course of my life. Of course they only say it behind my back.

Hypocrites weep, and you cannot tell their tears from those of saints; but no bad man ever laughed sweetly yet.

If Jupiter should hurl a bolt whenever men sin, His armory would quickly be empty.

Men wish to be saved from the mischiefs of their vices, but not from their vices.

How long before we have, not just homosexual marriage, but homosexual unions between adult men and small boys?

However toplofty and idealistic a man may be, he can always rationalize his right to earn money.

It takes balls to execute an innocent man.

Though man or angel judge my life and read it like an open scroll, And weigh my heart, I have judge more just than any—my own soul.

Animals are neither gods nor fiends, but men in their way without the lust and greed of man.

Those who follow the part of themselves which is great are great men; those who follow the part which is little are little men.

All things desirable to men are contained in the Bible.

A man's moral worth is not measured by what his religious beliefs are but rather by what emotional impulses he has received from Nature during his lifetime.

The consistent thinker, the consistently moral man, is either a walking mummy or else, if he has not succeeded in stifling all his vitality, a fanatical monomaniac.

The precepts of the law may be comprehended under these three points: to live honestly, to hurt no man willfully, and to render every man his due carefully.

Where there is a choice of two evils, most men take both.

Nobody has ever given a reason why men should be their brother's keepers.