Quotes About Morality

What you do to these men on California's Death Row, you do to God.

Man is the being who, from cradle to grave has to abide by either his man-made laws or heavenly law.

The heart of man is "deceitful and desperately wicked."

A gentleman is one who is too brave to lie, too generous to cheat, and who takes his share othe world and lets other people have theirs.

Man is vile, I know, but people are wonderful.

What evil is there in seeing a man possess a woman? Why, the beasts would be more free than we!

The seriousness of ecological degradation lays bare the depth of man's moral crisis... Simplicity, moderation, and discipline as well as the spirit of sacrifice must become a part of everyday life.

I didn't want to kill a man. I'm not capable of killing a man. I wanted to kill a tyrant.

As long as a man does not sin, he is feared. As soon as he sins, he himself is in fear.

Any extraordinary degree of beauty in man or woman involves a moral charm.

I am an honest, God-fearing man who is intensely dedicated to being the best person I can be on and off the football field.

The history of the world shows that when a mean thing was done, man did it; when a good thing was done, man did it.

The great difficulty about keeping the Ten Commandments is that no man can keep them and be a gentleman.

Law never made men a whit more just; and, by means of their respect for it, even the well-disposed are daily made the agents of injustice.

A good man therefore is a standing lesson to us all.

To God all things are fair and good and right, but men hold some things wrong and some right.

None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.

The more illegal a profit, the more tenaciously a man clings to it.

The object of punishment is to... lift the man up; to stamp out his bad nature and wicked disposition.

The best of men are men at best

Many, many men have been just as troubled morally and spiritually as you are right now. Happily, some of them kept records of their troubles.

But the question is, whether the animals who endure such sufferings of various kinds for the service and entertainment of man, would accept existence upon the terms on which they have it.

Yet perhaps no sacrifice is wholly useless which proves there are men who prefer honour to life.

Man arose to high moral vision two thousand years before the Hebrew nation was born.