Quotes About Morality

My intention was to write a chapter of the moral history of my country and I chose Dublin for the scene because that city seemed to me the centre of paralysis.

We make men without chests and expect from them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst.

Isn't it better to have men being ungrateful than to miss a chance to do good?

A real man is he whose goodness is a part of himself.

Even nowadays a man can't step up and kill a woman without feeling just a bit unchivalrous.

Charisma gets the attention of man and character gets the attention of God.

But what sin is to the moralist and crime to the jurist so to the scientific man is ignorance.

Everyone asks if a man is rich, no one if he is good.

Every man is free to do that which he wills, provided he infringes not the equal freedom of any other man.

As often as Herman had witnessed the slaughter of animals and fish, he always had the same thought: in their behavior toward creatures, all men were Nazis.

Vice and virtue chiefly imply the relation of our actions to men in this world; sin and holiness rather imply their relation to God and the other world.

Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to preserve it. Has it ever been said that a man who throws himself out the window to escape from a fire is guilty of suicide?

Men of most renowned virtue have sometimes by transgressing most truly kept the law.

No wicked man knows happiness, and least of all the seducer of others.

This is his first punishment, that by the verdict of his own heart no guilty man is acquitted.

Lying is a terrible vice, it testifies that one despises God, but fears men.

But who, except God, can say whether a man is right or foolish if he follows the call of his conscience?

Has a man the right to kill himself? Yes, if his death harms no one and if life is an evil to him. When is life an evil? When it offers a man nothing but suffering and pain.

A man who moralizes is a hypocrite, and a woman who does so is invariably plain.

Man is conceived in sin and born in corruption and he passeth from the stink of the didie to the stench of the shroud. There is always something (All The King's Men)

The lust of gold succeeds the rage of conquest; The lust of gold, unfeeling and remorseless! The last corruption of degenerate man.

Credit leads a man into temptation. Cash down is the only thing that will deliver him from evil.

If anybody ever dares to compare Bob Dole to Clinton, then they're comparing a criminal to an honest man.

If one man tells you to murder, you get a jail cell - if another man tells you to murder, you get medals and a pension.