Quotes About Morality

If something is wrong, it matters not if a thousand men are for it; you must still oppose it. If something is just, no amount of popular outcry should stay you from your course.

Men are rewarded or punished not for what they do but for how their acts are defined. That is why men are more interested in better justifying themselves than in better behaving themselves.

You've got to stand for something, or you'll fall for anything You've got to be your own man, not a puppet on a string

You can judge the moral bearing of a political system, a political institution, a political man by the degree of danger they attach to the fact of being observed through the eyes of a satiric poet.

What white man has ever seen me drunk? Who has ever come to me hungry and left me unfed? Who has seen me beat my wives or abuse my children? What law have I broken?

For all riches come from iniquity, and unless one were to lose another could not gain. Hence the common adage seems to me to be very true: The rich man is unjust or the heir of an unjust one.

All men are evil and will declare themselves to be so when occasion is offered.

Man is a disgusting thing. If you beat him he starts to scream, but if it is the other one who is beaten, then he constructs a theory.

Men are never so good or so bad as their opinions.

The traitor to Humanity is the traitor most accursed; Man is more than Constitutions; better rot beneath the sod, Than be true to Church and State while we are doubly false to God.

If you are poor, shun association with him who measures men with the yardstick of riches.

All men are good when free from passion, interest, or error.

The company of just and righteous men is better than wealth and a rich estate.

It's not what a man has but what a man is that's important.

If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him.

Can any man or woman choose duties? No more than they can choose their birthplace or their father and mother.

If half an onion is black with rot, it is a rotten onion. A man is good or he is evil. (Melisandre of Asshai)

Father asked us what was God's noblest work. Anna said men, but I said babies. Men are often bad, but babies never are.

I'm a good woman for a bad man.

A Man Without Honor is Worse than Dead.

Men generally decide upon a middle course, which is most hazardous, for they know neither how to be entirely good nor entirely bad.

As honest as you could expect a man to be in a world where it's out of style.

A good man, is a good man, whether in this church, or out of it.

A true man of piety will consider himself a sinner and, therefore, untouchable.