Quotes About Morality

No public man can be just a little crooked. There is no such thing as a no-man's land between honesty and dishonesty.

Law is twofold -- natural and written. The natural law is in the heart, the written law on tables. All men are under the natural law.

One should judge a man mainly from his depravities. Virtues can be faked. Depravities are real.

Heaven and hell suppose two distinct species of men, the good and the bad. But the greatest part of mankind float betwixt vice and virtue.

Any alleged 'right' of one man, which necessitates the violation of the rights of another, is not and cannot be a right.

I try to act as a man of character if no one is watching or if the world is watching.

We cannot have two hearts, one for the animals and one for men. In cruelty towards the former and cruelty to the latter there is no difference but in the victim.

What each man feared would happen to himself, did not trouble him when he saw that it would ruin another.

It is not because men's desires are strong that they act ill; it is because their consciences are weak.

The experience of ages has shown that a man who works on the land is purer, nobler, higher, and more moral... Agriculture should be at the basis of everything. That's my idea.

It has now become the doctrine of a large clan of politicians that political honesty is unnecessary, slow, subversive of a man's interests, and incompatible with quick onward movement.

Men love everything but righteousness and fear everything but God.

There are two freedoms - the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought.

Necessity makes an honest man a knave.

Only a man's character is the real criterion of worth.

Any gun in the hands of a bad man is a bad thing. Any gun in the hands of a decent person is no threat to anybody — except bad people.

The superior man loves his soul; the inferior man loves his property.

The real problem is in the hearts and minds of men. It is not a problem of physics but of ethics. It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.

He who has renounced all violence towards all living beings, weak or strong, who neither kills nor causes others to kill - him I do call a holy man.

Knowledge without repentance will be but a torch to light men to hell.

Maybe a man has to sell his soul to get the power to do good.

Vices are simply the errors which a man makes in his search after his own happiness. Unlike crimes, they imply no malice toward others, and no interference with their persons or property.

I like a man who's good, but not too good - for the good die young, and I hate a dead one.

Every man has his moral backside which he refrains from showing unless he has to and keeps covered as long as possible with the trousers of decorum.