Quotes About Morality

A man cannot do good before he is made good.

Educate the heart. Let us have good men.

Conscience. Conscience is the ultimate measure of a man.

There are no perfect men in this world, only perfect intentions.

Unfortunately, goodness and honor are rather the exception than the rule among exceptional men, not to speak of geniuses

It is impossible that a man who is false to his friends and neighbours should be true to the public.

Folks can believe what they like but eventually a man's got to declare if he's going to do what is right.

I am a bad, wicked man, but I am practicing moral self-purification; I don't eat meat any more, I now eat rice cutlets.

If we can reform the man and make him a better man and a God-fearing man, then we have a chance, we believe, to build a better world.

No man who is corrupt, no man who condones corruption in others, can possibly do his duty by the community.

Whether the man is an atheist or a Christian, I would judge him by his fruits, and I have therefore many agnostic friends.

Killing a man should be harder than waving a length of pipe in their direction. It should take long enough for one's conscience to get in the way.

Force always attracts men of low morality, and I believe it to be an invariable rule that tyrants of genius are succeeded by scoundrels.

Force always attracts men of low morality.

Nature knows no indecencies; man invents them.

Believe me, religions are on the wrong track the moment they moralize and fulminate commandments. God is not needed to create guilt or to punish. Our fellow men suffice, aided by ourselves.

Even great men can be corrupted

If you ain't thinkin about man and God and law, then you ain't thinkin about nothin'.

Base men who prosper are unenviable.

I believe the measure of a man isn't just the road he's traveled; it's the choices he's made along the way.

A good man regards the root; he fixes the root, and ail else flows out of it. The root is filial piety; the fruit brotherly love.

A man's indebtedness is not virtue; his repayment is. Virtue begins when he dedicates himself actively to the job of gratitude.

The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort.

Christianity taught men that love is worth more than intelligence.