Quotes About Morality

He was a man of his times. with one virtue and a thousand crimes. (The Corsair)

Kill a man's family, and he may brook it, But keep your hands out of his breeches' pocket.

Why kill good people just to get a bad man?

Our errors and our controversies, in the sphere of morality, arise sometimes from looking on men as though they could be altogether bad, or altogether good.

Learn to overrule minor interest in favor of great ones, and generously to do all the good the heart prompts; a man is never injured by acting virtuously.

Jesus never instructed men to do what was right because it was right; yet this is the true reason why they should do it.

A man who behaves like a beast is worse than the beast.

Even a little untruth destroys a man, as a drop of poison ruins milk.

A man can give up a right, but he may not give up a duty without being guilty of a grave dereliction.

I must refuse to believe that the Germans contemplate with equanimity the evacuation of cities like London for fear of destruction to be wrought by man's inhuman ingenuity.

Mankind is one, seeing that all are equally subject to the moral law. All men are equal in God's eyes.

That which is inherent in man is his virtue.

The man has not the power to create life. Therefore, he has not either, the right to destroy it.

It is for you and me to show that no vice is inherent in man.

Cow-slaughter and man-slaughter are in my opinion two sides of the same coin.

He who runs may see that opium and such other intoxicants and narcotics stupefy a man's soul and reduce him to a level lower than that of beasts.

If the village worker is not a decent man or woman, conducting a decent home, he or she had better not aspire after the high privilege and honour of becoming a village worker.

What is a man if he is not a thief who openly charges as much as he can for the goods he sells?

God cannot be so cruel and unjust as to make the distinctions of high and low between man and man, and woman and woman.

Hitler is a scourge sent by God to punish men for their iniquities.

A nonviolent man cannot desire embarrassment.

That which impels man to do the right thing is God.

Civilization is that mode of conduct which points out to man the path of duty.

As a splendid palace deserted by its inmates looks like a ruin, so does a man without character, all his material belongings notwithstanding.