Quotes About Morality

We can, following the exemple of Kant, consider the moral development and improvement of men, as the supreme goal of human evolution.

A good man ("un homme de bien", Fr.) never wholly perishes, the best part of his being outlives (or survives) in eternity.

Men are free to decide their own moral choices, but they are also under the necessity to account to God for those choices.

An honest man is strange when he is among dishonest men, but it is a good kind of strangeness.

Bullfights are hugely popular because you can sit comfortably with a hot dog and possibly watch a man die. It wont be me, but I can sit comfortably and watch it.

Men like us are good and proud and strong...if we had a faith, a God, nothing could undermine us. But we had nothing, we had to learn everything, and living for honor alone has its weaknesses.

There are always reasons for murdering a man. But there is no justification for his existence.

In every guilty man, there is some innocence. This makes every absolute condemnation revolting.

The principle can be established that for a man who does not cheat what he believes to be true must determine his actions.

Every man is responsible only for his own acts. The sons do not inherit the sins of the fathers. But can we say: that was long ago, they were different?

There can be no profit in the making or selling of things to be destroyed in war. Men may think that they have such profit, but in the end the profit will turn out to be a loss.

Man is raw and wild, that is one of the reasons why he needs the Christian teaching.

Become corrupt, corrupt, and you will cease to suffer!" This has been the cry of all cities to man.

until ... the promiscuous woman is recognized, not only in law but in public opinion, as being neither better nor worse than the promiscuous man, equality has not been won in the moral sphere.

Bacon, Locke, Descartes, Hume, and all the others knew they were giving rights to vulgarity. But in so doing in addition to caring for man's well-being they were providing rights for themselves.

Notice that tearing oneself out of the insensible state is the opposite of remaining in it; the man who is beneficent from duty nevertheless acts with feelings, if not with empirical inclinations.

Well I just figure any man who risks his neck to save a dog's life isn't going to kill someone for gold teeth.

A man who piously shuts himself up to meditate upon the sin of wickedness and to keep it fresh in his mind joins a brotherhood of awful examples.

IMMORAL, adj. Inexpedient. Whatever in the long run and with regard to the greater number of instances men find to be generally inexpedient comes to be considered wrong, wicked, immoral.

Human beings have rights, because they are moral beings: the rights of all men grow out of their moral nature; and as all men have the same moral nature, they have the same rights.

The issue is privacy. Why is the decision by a woman to sleep with a man she has just met in a bar a private one, and the decision to sleep with the same man for $100 subject to criminal penalties?

I am certain a great many believers and bible readers do believe in social justice.

We have not yet encountered any god who is as merciful as a man who flicks a beetle over on its feet.

For all men are equal at the moment of death and who are we to judge them when a much greater judge awaits?