Quotes About Morality

A lie faces God and shrinks from man.

The happiness and unhappiness of men depends as much on their ethics as on fortune.

For the credit of virtue we must admit that the greatest misfortunes of men are those into which they fall through their crimes.

However wicked men may be, they do not dare openly to appear the enemies of virtue, and when they desire to persecute her they either pretend to believe her false or attribute crimes to her.

The most ingenious men continually pretend to condemn tricking--but this is often done that they may use it more conveniently themselves, when some great occasion or interest offers itself to them.

Whoever possesses abundant joy must be a good man: but he is probably not the cleverest man, although he achieves exactly what it is that the cleverest man strives with all his cleverness to achieve.

Pharisaism is not a degeneration in a good man: a large portion of it is rather the condition of all being-good.

Moral sensibilities are nowadays at such cross-purposes that to one man a morality is proved by its utility, while to another its utility refutes it.

A man should not play the coward to his deeds. He should not repudiate them once he has performed them. Pangs of conscience are indecent.

The masters have been done away with; the morality of the common man has triumphed.

Man must become better and more evil.

Without the errors involved in the assumptions of ethics, man would have remained an animal. Thus has he taken himself as something higher and imposed rigid laws upon himself.

In morality, man treats himself not as individuum but as dividuum.

Perhaps man will rise ever higher as soon as he ceases to flow out into a god.

An honest man you may form of windle-straws, but to make a rogue you must have grist.

Man has not the right to turn aside and heed not what is happening in the world around him, and this I maintain on moral grounds of the highest order.

Thus, as a result of heightened consciousness, a man feels as if it's all right if he's bad as long as he knows it- as though that were any consolation.

Gaylord (Perry) is a very honorable man. He only calls for the spitter when he needs it.

I think I am a moral man.

Man is a moral being.

Fie on possession, But if a man be vertuous withal.

Jesus Christ tells us that a man cannot be wrong if he argues towards God from what he finds best in himself.

If a man is indolent, let him be poor. If he is drunken, let him be poor.... Also--somewhat inconsistently--blessed are the poor!

What a man is depends on his character; but what he does, and what we think of what he does, depends on his circumstances.