Quotes About Morality

The Bible must be considered as the great source of all the truth by which men are to be guided in government as well as in all social transactions.

So easily do weak men put in high positions turn villains.

Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything praiseworthy in human life.

When a man is getting better he understands more and more clearly the evil that is still left in him. When a man is getting worse he understands his own badness less and less.

A man who honors God privately will show it by making good decisions publicly.

The world has no idea how much it owes to the presence of righteous men in it.

Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense.

Much Virtue in Herbs, little in Men.

A good man will avoid the spot of any sin. The very aspersion is grievous, which makes him choose his way in his life, as he would in his journey.

As soon as men decide that all means are permitted to fight an evil, then their good becomes indistinguishable from the evil that they set out to destroy.

Morality, like numinous awe, is a jump; in it, man goes beyond anything that can be 'given' in the facts of experience.

If a man teach uprightly and walk crookedly, more will fall down in the night of his life than he built in the day of his doctrine.

The holy man, though he be distressed, does not eat food mixed with wickedness. The lion, though hungry, will not eat what is unclean.

One said a tooth drawer was a kind of unconscionable trade, because his trade was nothing else but to take away those things whereby every man gets his living.

There is to some men a great Lechery in Lying, and imposing on the understandings of beleeving people.

Only the chaste man and the chaste woman are capable of true love.

An honest man always values earning honor over wealth.

A poet can write about a man slaying a dragon, but not about a man pushing a button that releases a bomb.

A man who is more concerned with being a good man than being good at being a man makes a very well-behaved slave.

I hold the precepts of Jesus as delivered by Himself, to be the most pure, benevolent and sublime which have ever been preached to man.

Man's laws cannot make moral what God has declared immoral

It's hard to resist a bad boy who's a good man.

A man must commit a crime at least once in his life-time. Only then will his virtue be recognized

I'd say a man is someone who is honest, strong-minded, moral, genuine, just a good human being.