Quotes About Morality

Man can hardly even recognize the devils of his own creation.

If there is no Hell, a good many preachers are obtaining money under false pretenses.

I think if I were dying and I heard of an act of injustice, it would start me up to a moment's life again.

Injustice is a sixth sense, and rouses all the others.

The best index to a person's character is (a) how he treats people who can't do him any good, and (b) how he treats people who can't fight back.

Today I bent the truth to be kind, and I have no regret, for I am far surer of what is kind that I am of what is true.

Justice and judgment lie often a world apart.

Isn't it better to have men be ungrateful, than to miss a chance to do good?

Cruelty is the only sin.

A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.

One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.

The question is this: Is man an ape or an angel? I, my lords, am on the side of the angels.

A man has honour if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable or dangerous to do so.

Honour follows those who flee it.

The fact is that the possession of a highly social conscience about large-scale issues is no guarantee whatever of reasonable conduct in private relations.

If only there were evil people somewhere, insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?

In humility imitate Jesus and Socrates.

Charles Dickens' creation of Mr. Pickwick did more for the elevation of the human race - I say it in all seriousness - than Cardinal Newman's Lead Kindly Light Amid the Encircling Gloom. Newman only cried out for light in the gloom of a sad world. Dickens gave it.

Hypocrisy is the homage which vice pays to virtue.

For neither man nor angel can discern hypocrisy, the only evil that walks invisible.

I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.

Reasons are whores.

Saint abroad, and a devil at home.

Every man is a hypocrite