Quotes About Morality

What a man does defiles him, not what is done by others.

All education is the art of making men ethical (sittlich), of transforming the old Adam into the new Adam.

The murder of a man is still murder, even in wartime.

A grateful dog is better than an ungrateful man.

The man of impure speech is a person whose lips are but an opening and a supply pipe which hell uses to vomit its impurities upon the earth.

And seeing every man is presumed to do all things in order to his own benefit, no man is a fit Arbitrator in his own cause

A man, who can, in cold blood, hunt and torture a poor, innocent animal, cannot feel much compassion for the distress of his own species.

You might as well praise a man for not robbing a bank as to praise him for playing by the rules.

Man is not made better by being degraded.

No matter whether you claim a slave by purchase or capture, the title is bad. They who claim to own their fellow-men, look down into the pit and forget the justice that should rule the world.

The greatest possesion of man is character

Every man has his price, or a guy like me couldn't exist.

The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.

The man who deceives shows more justice than he who does not

I do not know what the heart of a bad man is like. But i do know what the heart of a good man is like. And it is terrible.

The loss of...honest and industrious men's lives cannot be valued at any price.

A honest man is seldom a vagrant.

It is indeed probable that more harm and misery have been caused by men determined to use coercion to stamp out a moral evil than by men intent on doing evil.

The fate of animals is of greater importance to me than the fear of appearing ridiculous; it is indissolubly connected with the fate of men.

No man chooses evil because it's evil. He only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.

If you are suffering from a bad man's injustice, forgive him lest there be two bad men.

Gather the five virtues (Dignity, Confidence, Courage, Compassion, and Faith). Then you are a man.

For there is no defense for a man who, in the excess of his wealth, has kicked the great altar of Justice out of sight.

A man who has no conscience, no goodness, does not suffer.