Quotes About Morality

There are some points on which no man can be contented to follow the advice of another - some subjects on which a man can consult his own conscience only.

Like most people who live in India, I complain about corruption, but know that I can live with corrupt men. It is the honest ones I secretly worry about.

Piety's hard enough to take among the poor who have to practice it. A rich man's piety stinks. It's insufferable.

Man provides his own goods and his own evils, neither God nor the Devil has anything to do with it.

The setting is a worthy one, if the devil did desire to have a hand in the affairs of men.

I am not a very good man, Effie, but I think that I am a better one than you have given me credit for being.

A man of business will often deceive you without the slightest scruple, but he will absolutely refuse to commit a theft.

Each man's soul is a menagerie where Conscience, the animal-tamer, lives with a collection of wild beasts.

The fact that a man has no claim on others ... does not preclude or prohibit good will among men and does not make it immoral to offer or to accept voluntary, non-sacrificial assistance.

One can't love man without hating most of the creatures who pretend to bear his name.

Kant is the most evil man in mankind's history.

Capitalism and altruism are incompatible; they are philosophical opposites; they cannot co-exist in the same man or in the same society.

The moral cannibalism of all hedonist and altruist doctrines lies in the premise that the happiness of one man necessitates the injury of another.

When you have civilized men fighting savages, you support the civilized men, no matter who they are.

The men who attempt to survive, not by means of reason, but by means of force, are attempting to survive by the method of animals.

A viler evil than to murder a man, is to sell him suicide as an act of virtue.

Remember that rights are moral principles which define and protect a man's freedom of action, but impose no obligations on other men.

Whoever, to whatever purpose or extent, initiates the use of force, is a killer acting on the premise of death in a manner wider than murder: the premise of destroying man's capacity to live.

The man without religion is as a ship without a rudder.

The majority of men are more capable of great actions than of good ones.

It just takes a pebble to bring down a good man.

A good man should and must Sit rather down with loss than rise unjust.

A perfect character might be attended with the inconvenience of being envied and hated; and that a benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself, to keep his friends in countenance.

He that steals the old man's supper does him no wrong.