Quotes About Morality

What is it that distinguishes man from animals? It is not his upright posture.

Good men make good rhinoceroses, unfortunately.

Vice goes along way towards making life bearable. A little vice now and then is relished by the best of men.

There is scarcely any man sufficiently clever to appreciate all the evil he does.

It is more difficult for a man to be faithful to his mistress when he is favored than when he is ill treated by her.

In the last analysis, even the best man is evil: in the last analysis, even the best woman is bad.

All preachers of morality, as also all theologians have a bad habit in common: all of them try to persuade man that he is very ill, and that a severe, final, radical cure is necessary.

The rights which a man arrogates to himself are relative to the duties which he sets himself, and to the tasks which he feels capable of performing.

The man who wears the yellow-dyed robe but is not free from stains himself, without self-restraint and integrity, is unworthy of the robe.

To say on the authority of the Bible that God does a thing no honourable man would do, is to lie against God; to say that it is therefore right, is to lie against the very spirit of God.

A man may sink by such slow degrees that, long after he is a devil, he may go on being a good churchman or a good dissenter and thinking himself a good Christian.

No man's really any good till he knows how bad he is, or might be.

Man had freedom to choose the good, but this same freedom also allowed him to choose the bad. This is called moral freedom.

That man has missed something who has never left a brothel at sunrise feeling like throwing himself into the river out of pure disgust.

The only monsters I have ever known were men.

The laws of men are not infallible.

If America is to survive, we must elect more God-centered men and women to public office; individuals who will seek Divine guidance in the affairs of state.

Great men's honor ought always to be measured by the methods they made use of in attaining it.

Not every great man is a grand human being.

Every one disguising the truth from a man who has a right to the truth is wrong, and ought not to be encouraged.

But, slavery is good for some people! ! ! As a good thing, slavery is strikingly peculiar, in this, that it is the only good thing which no man ever seeks the good of, for himself.

It is easiest to "be all things to all men," but it is not honest. Self-respect must be sacrificed every hour in the day.

If the negro is a man, why then my ancient faith teaches me that 'all men are created equal,' and that there can be no moral right in connection with one man's making a slave of another.

Humanity is the virtue of a woman, generosity that of a man.