Quotes About Morality

Friendship with a man is friendship with his virtue, and does not admit of assumptions of superiority.

Benevolence is one of the distinguishing characters of man.

Civilization is not by means an easy thing to attain to. There are only two ways by which man can reach it. One is by being cultured, the other by being corrupt.

It is the evil in man that makes democracy necessary, and man's belief in justice that makes democracy possible.

Fulfillment in life is loving a good woman and killing a bad man.

Sometimes the Bible in the hands of one man is worse than a whiskey bottle in the hands of another.

A good woman is known by what she does; a good man by what he doesn't.

Some men get the world, some men get ex-hookers and a trip to Arizona. You're in with the former, but my God I don't envy the blood on your conscience.

Conscience in the soul is the root of all true courage. If a man would be brave, let him learn to obey his conscience.

Kill one man and you're a murderer, kill a million and you're a conqueror.

One kills a man, one is an assassin; one kills millions, one is a conqueror; one kills everybody, one is a god.

In men whom men condemn as ill I find so much of goodness still, In men whom men pronounce divine I find so much of sin and blot, I do not dare to draw a line Between the two, where God has not.

You can't measure what's inside a man's heart.

Most Men are Cowards, all Men should be Knaves. The Difference lies, as far as I can see, Not in the thing it self, but the Degree.

I have never pretended to be any kind of super-religious kind of man, but I feel very strongly that you can be funny without being dirty.

There's a lust in man, no charm can tame, of loudly publishing our neighbor's shame.

Never let a man imagine that he can pursue a good end by evil means, without sinning against his own soul. The evil effect on himself is certain.

There is a certain degree of temptation which will overcome any virtue. Now, in so far as you approach temptation to a man, you do him an injury; and, if he is overcome, you share his guilt.

Men err when they think they can be inhuman exploiters in their business life, and loving husbands and fathers at home.

Nations begin to dig their own graves when men talk more of human rights and less of human duties.

Be sure that religion cannot be right that a man is the worse for having.

What makes a good man?

Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way; and moral courage, which despises all opinion, will make a man brave in another.

A man is simple when his chief care is the wish to be what he ought to be, that is honestly and naturally human.