Quotes About Morality

When it comes to the point, really bad men are just as rare as really good ones.

It is not true that men can be divided into absolutely honest persons and absolutely dishonest ones. Our honesty varies with the strain put on it.

A man's behaviour may be quite harmless and even beneficial, when he ismorally behaving like a scoundrel. And he may do great harm when he is morally acting on the highest principles.

Thus, I blush to add, you can not be a philosopher and a good man, though you may be a philosopher and a great one.

The salvation of the world depends on the men who will not take evil good-humouredly, and whose laughter destroys the fool instead of encouraging him.

Virtue is not malicious; wrong done her Is righted even when men grant they err.

There is no general doctrine which is not capable of eating out our morality if unchecked by the deep-seated habit of direct fellow-feeling with individual fellow-men.

The yoke a man creates for himself by wrong-doing will breed hate in the kindliest nature.

To men who only aim at escaping felony, nothing short of the prisoner's dock is disgrace.

It is my firm conviction that man has nothing to gain, emotionally or otherwise, by adhering to a falsehood, regardless of how comfortable or sacred that falsehood may appear.

Vertue flies from the heart of a Mercenary man.

Lie not, neither to thyself, nor man, nor God. Let mouth and heart be one; beat and speak together, and make both felt in action. It is for cowards to lie.

He that dies without the company of good men puts not himselfe into a good way.

Keep not ill men company, lest you increase the number.

God chooses that men should be tried, but let a man beware of tempting his neighbor.

Explain to me why it is more noble to kill ten thousand men in battle than a dozen at dinner.

You kill men for the wrongs they have done, not the wrongs that they may do someday.

God knows I'm no saint, but I don't think I'm more of a sinner than any other man.

We ought to be interested in that darkest and most real part of a man in which dwell not the vices that he does not display, but the virtues that he cannot.

I am more than a devil; I am a man. I can do the one thing which Satan himself cannot do— I can die.

There is a case for telling the truth; there is a case for avoiding the scandal; but there is no possible defense for the man who tells the scandal, but does not tell the truth

Men may keep a sort of level of good, but no man has ever been able to keep on one level of evil.

I believe in our side and theirs, with the good and evil decided after the fact, by those who survive. Among men you seldom find the good with one standard and the shadow with another.

Stay out of the gutter in your conversation. Foul talk defiles the man who speaks it.