Quotes About Morality

No man has a right to do as he pleases, except when he pleases to do right.

Men are only as unfaithful as their options.

We are primitive men; we taboo what we desire and need. How did the denying of love come to be associated with the idea of morality.

The business man who gains success at the expense of the poor and miserable gains nil respect from his peers.

Disregarding the fact that I am old enough to be [Walter] Schellenberg's mother, I would feel nauseated to be coupled with a man whose ideology has debased our hearts.

Every man with his own peculiar vice. His will hardly rock heaven or hell.

A good man will certainly also possess courage; but a brave man is not necessarily good.

The superior man accords with the course of the Mean. Though he may be all unknown, unregarded by the world, he feels no regret - It is only the sage who is able for this.

But I didn't know what to say to him. What do you say to a man that by his own admission has no soul? Why would you say anything?

There's laws that we must live by, and they're not the laws of man.

The Sermon on the Mount cannot be a merely human production. This belief enters into the very depth of my conscience. The whole history of man proves it.

Yes,' growled Fell, 'for animals do not know what they do, but man has knowledge of his cruelty.

Evil will never be countered while good men do nothing.

Never be glad that another man has died. Not ever. [...] It never ends. Never... ever... be glad to kill.

All men who have moved the world have been men who would stand true to their conscience.

No man will revel long in the indulgence of crime.

A man's goodness is truly measured by what he is, not what he does.

A man who thinks he has a higher purpose can do terrible things, even to those he professes to love.

Which would be worse - to live as a monster, or to die as a good man?

Man has learned to cope with all questions of importance without recourse to God as a working hypothesis.

There are people out there dying every day, so when you wake up, you just have to thank the Man Upstairs for another day on this planet. There's not much else we can ask for.

The righteousness of men should be treated with the same respect that one would accord to a rattlesnake. Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.

The moral man is as guilty as the rest. His morality cannot save him.

When a man hangs from a tree it doesn't spell justice unless he helped write the law that hanged him.