Quotes About Morality

The path of least resistance leads to crooked rivers and crooked men.

Civilization has made man, if not always more bloodthirsty, at least more viciously, more horribly bloodthirsty.

No man has a natural right to commit aggression on the equal rights of another; and this is all from which the laws ought to restrain him.

Only the man who lives in the laws of GOD is free

A hungry man can't see right or wrong. He just sees food.

Men do not so much hate an evil-doer, or evil itself, as they hate the man who calls evil by its real name.

Many a thief is a better man than many a clergyman, and miles nearer to the gate of the kingdom.

I find it easy to forgive the man who invented a devilish instrument like dynamite, but how can one ever forgive the diabolical mind that invented the Nobel Prize in Literature?

Earth produces nothing worse than an ungrateful man.

They are so filthy and bestial that no honest man would admit one into his house for a water-closet doormat.

Anyone who can appease a man's conscience can take his freedom away from him.

No man can break any of the Ten Commandments. He can only break himself against them.

Believe in no other God than the one who insists on justice and equality among men.

Oh, what a wicked world it is that drives a man to sin.

Left to himself, man is half beast and half devil.

Good men are bound by conscience and liberated by accountability.

Kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman who has known man by lying with him. But all the young girls who have not known man ... , keep alive for yourselves.

The life of every citizen is becoming a business. This, it seems to me, is one of the worst interpretations of the meaning of human life history has ever seen. Man's life is not a business.

What a singular fact for an angel visitant to this earth to carry back in his note-book, that men were forbidden to expose their bodies under the severest penalties!

Kill one man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill them all, and you are a god.

A great cause of evil in the world is that men seldom think themselves criminal if they offer the same injustice to others that has been successfully practiced on themselves.

The line, often adopted by strong men in controversy, of justifying the means by the end.

The Great Spirit is angry with all men that tell lies.

When Eve upon the first of Men The apple press'd with specious cant, Oh! what a thousand pities then That Adam was not Adamant!