Quotes About Morality

Man is the being who is involuntarily and voluntarily busy with himself and his surroundings, between two broadcasting stations of good and evil, until one or the other ultimately prevails.

There are things a man must not do even to save a nation.

Honor?" "Yes." "I'm going to do things to you now that a good girl definitely shouldn't let a man do to her.

I don't think we've got the concept in the West that male desire degrades men. Or that if men become sexually active, they become debased in some way, or slutty. Or lose status.

Morality has nothing to do with such a man as I am.

The law, that is what makes men stay honest.

Policemen and prisons ought never to be the means used to bring men back to the practice of religion.

There is no such thing in man's nature as a settled and full resolve either for good or evil, except at the very moment of execution.

Love makes saints or sinners out of men.

Even an evil man can have principles—he can be true to his own evil, which is not always so easy.

Wars may be fought by decent men, but they're not won by them.

Men do monstrous things but if you call a man a monster you have absolved yourself of blame. You don't have to think that you might ever do these things. I don't think that's true

Only people who are assured of daily food can concern themselves with matters of principle and ethic. A man will become a slave rather than starve.

In proportion as a man is selfish, so far has he receded from the motive which constitutes virtue.

It's wrong to flog a man. It's against his being a man.

We love justice greatly, and just men but little.

Ambition, in a private man is a vice, is in a prince the virtue.

The good needs fear no law, It is his safety and the bad man's awe.

I am no herald to inquire into men's pedigree; it sufficeth me if I know their virtues.

... can life be made undignified by any act of man?

If any man thinks to swindle God, he is wrong.

I do not think it is permitted that a better man be harmed by a worse.

There is no perfecter endowment in man than political virtue.

The most glorious exploits do not always furnish us with the clearest discoveries of virtue or vice in men.