Quotes About Morality

Men's minds do not die with their bodies but are made more happy or miserable after this life according to their actions.

And whether you're an honest man, or whether you're a thief, depends on whose solicitor has given me my brief.

If men would only take the chances of doing right because it is right, instead of the immediate certainty of the advantage of doing wrong, how much happier would their lives be.

Good men study to spiritualize their bodies; bad men to incarnate their souls.

A good man's life is all of a piece.

Thought makes the whole dignity of man; therefore endeavor to think well, that is the only morality.

It is not shameful for a man to succumb to pain and it is shameful to succumb to pleasure.

When a man who accepts the Christian doctrine lives unworthily of it, it is much clearer to say he is a bad Christian than to say he is not a Christian.

Every man's conscience is vile and depraved / You cannot depend on it to be your guide when it's you who must keep it satisfied.

Good men don't become legends," he said quietly. "Good men don't need to become legends." She opened her eyes, looking up at him. "They just do what's right anyway.

You cannot tempt the hearts of men who are pure.

Besides reasoning about matters of fact, men also make moral judgements.

If we continue to make moral judgements (and whatever we say shall in fact continue) then we must believe that the conscience of man is not a product of nature.

Morality or duty never yet made a man happy in himself or dear to others.

All men alike stand condemned, not by alien codes of ethics, but by their own, and all men therefore are conscious of guilt.

I enjoyed my breakfast this morning, and I think that was a good thing and do not think it was condemned by God. But I do not think myself a good man for enjoying it.

We have allowed the sexual debate to be defined by women, and that's not right. Men must speak, and speak in their own voices, not voices coerced by feminist moralists.

Apparently it was unethical for lawyers to sleep with their clients. This from a man who offered legal representation to assassins.

He who befriends a man whose conduct is vicious, whose vision impure, and who is notoriously crooked, is rapidly ruined.

Those born blind cannot see; similarly blind are those in the grip of lust. Proud men have no perception of evil; and those bent on acquiring riches see no sin in their actions.

Vice has more martyrs than virtue; and it often happens that men suffer more to be lost than to be saved.

An honest man will continue to be so though surrounded on all sides by rogues.

It is absurd to suppose, if this is God's world, that men must always be selfish barbarians.

Man, while he loves, is never quite depraved.