Quotes About Morality

Christ . . . said that a man who had looked after a woman lustfully had sinned as much as the man who had seduced her. How absurd!

New Rule: Someone has to tell Francesco Schettino that embracing a callous policy of "every man for himself" doesn't make you a sea captain. It makes you the Republican nominee.

No bad man can be a good poet.

The principle of recognition of evil under all its guises is at the basis of the true education of man.

Using a fetching face to make men do as you wish is no different from a man using muscle to force a woman to his will. Both are base, and both will fail a person as they age.

Nothing in Man is either worse or better for being shared with the beasts.

A moderately bad man knows he is not very good: a thoroughly bad man thinks he is alright. This is common sense really. You understand sleep when you are awake, not well you are sleeping.

Character is tested by true sentiments more than by conduct. A man is seldom better than his word.

The men can have a moral compass that is just unshakeable, they can have ethics that run to the core.

If a man voluntarily allows himself to be crushed, he yields the oil of moral energy which sustains the world.

I regard Duryodhana and his party as the baser impulses in man, and Arjuna and his party as the higher impulses.

It doesn't take much of a rule to measure a mean man.

When men are inhuman, take care not to feel towards them as they do towards other humans.

Stop talking about what the good man is like, and just be one.

A person may be totally unimaginative and have the social vision of a mole, and we still call him a decent man.

A good man doubles the length of his existence; to have lived so as to look back with pleasure on our past existence is to live twice.

I do not hate the man, but his vices.

In all men is evil sleeping; the good man is he who will not awaken it, in himself or in other men.

No man is a Christian who cheats his fellows, perverts the truth, or speaks of a "clean bomb" yet he will be the first to make public his faith in God.

An evil deed is better left undone, for a man repents of it afterwards; a good deed is better done, for having done it, one does not repent.

Why do there have to be men like that, men who enjoy another man's dying?

In plain truth, lying is an accursed vice. We are not men, nor have any other tie upon another, but by our word.

For a man who walks in the light, to stay humble is not to walk in the dark; you don't need to project yourself to be thought an honest man.

What a terrible thing to be a great lord, yet a wicked man.