Quotes About Morality

We do want to drive out the beast in man, but we do not want on that account to emasculate him.

A man who broods on evil is as bad a man who does evil, if he is no worse.

There are unjust laws as there are unjust men.

I can no more preach nonviolence to a cowardly man than I can tempt a blind man to enjoy healthy scenes.

Few men are wantonly wicked.

It is difficult for me to regard anyone who obeys no moral principle in his conduct to be a religious man.

If any man has done wrong, the harm is his own. But perhaps he has not done wrong.

No man should so act as to make a gain out of the ignorance of another.

A good man will not lie, although it be for his profit.

The man who is always fortunate cannot easily have a great reverence for virtue.

How shrunk, how dwindled, in our times Creation's mighty seed - For Man has broke the Fellowship With murder, lust, and greed.

Hen nights should be banned. You're honour-bound to behave atrociously, then feel terribly ashamed afterwards. (This Charming Man)

When two good men contend about principles, both are always right.

There are some natures which never grow large enough to speak out and say a bad act is a bad act, until they have inquired into the politics or the nationality of the man who did it.

Every man is wholly honest to himself and to God, but not to any one else.

No man is straitly honest to any but himself and God.

It cannot, indeed, be denied, that a good man is more worthy of love than a bad one.

What harm would it do, if a man told a good strong lie for the sake of the good.

Men are not made religious by performing certain actions which are externally good, but they must first have righteous principles, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions.

Just as it is the duty of all men to obey just laws, so it is the duty of all men to disobey unjust laws.

What's virtue in a man can't be virtue in a cat.

I could not understand why men who knew all about good and evil could hate and kill each other.

Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.

I'm not in for killing another man, defending my holy land, as if there's a god who would understand.