Quotes About Morality

There is much difference between imitating a good man and counterfeiting him.

No evil can happen to a good man either in life or after death.

A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice.

I have killed no men, that, in the first place, didn't deserve killing

A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart.

The gentleman calls attention to the good points in others; he does not call attention to their defects. The small man does just the reverse of this.

A tailor, though a man of upright dealing,-- True but for lying,--honest but for stealing,-- Did fall one day extremely sick by chance And on the sudden was in wondrous trance.

A man's moral worth is established only at the point where he is ready to give up his life in defense of his convictions.

The thieves and killers are goin' to have guns, so if the honest men don't have 'em they just make it easier for the vicious.

A good man knows when to sacrifice himself, a bad man survives but loses his soul.

States are doomed when they are unable to distinguish good men from bad.

I would give no thought of what the world might say of me, if I could only transmit to posterity the reputation of an honest man.

Riches are a cause of evil, not because, of themselves, they do any evil, but because they goad men on to evil.

Men fall in private long before they fall in public.

It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.

Somewhere deep down there's a decent man in me, he just can't be found.

The punishment of criminals should be of use; when a man is hanged he is good for nothing.

The virtuous man is driven by responsibility, the non-virtuous man is driven by profit.

Life is a God-damned, stinking, treacherous game and nine hundred and ninety-nine men out of a thousand are bastards.

Ethical man: A Christian holding four aces.

A great disaster had befallen Russia: Men have forgotten God; that's why all this has happened.

Men like Hitler and Stalin and their immediate lieutenants cannot plead in defence of their actions that these were justified by the accepted values of that time.

I think a man becomes less than a man when he begins to compromise on what he believes is right.

What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood.