Quotes About Morality

Bodily pain affects man as a whole down to the deepest layers of his moral being.

A man who would mutilate himself is well damned, isn't he?

A bad man becomes worse when he apes a saint.

Teach erring man to spurn the rage of gain.

What you are is a man who means to be good, and undo the bad he's done, and that's as good as any man ever gets.

If he was a good man, how could he leave me? So he must not be a good man. But if he isn't good, then why does it hurt so much to lose him?

What do you call a bad man? The sort of man who admires innocence.

To have friends, you know, one need only be good-natured; but when a man has no enemy left there must be something mean about him.

We will pray that God take the lives of these Hitler-like men from the face of the earth.

Men imagine that they communicate their virtue or vice only by overt actions, and do not see that virtue or vice emit a breath every moment.

Men of character are the conscience of the society to which they belong.

Man's actions are the picture book of his creeds.

Good churches are not built by bad men; at least, there must be probity and enthusiasm somewhere in the society. These minsters were neither built nor filled by atheists.

I think the vice of our housekeeping is that it does not hold man sacred. The vice of government, the vice of education, the viceof religion, is one with that of the private life.

We want a state of things in which crime will not pay, a state of things which allows every man the largest liberty compatible with the liberty of every other man.

My view of Bradley Manning is that he's a very courageous young man who... did what I didn't have the guts to do during the Vietnam war.

Reason is not the sole basis of moral virtue in man. His social impulses are more deeply rooted than his rational life.

Man is always worse than most people suspect, but also generally better than most people dream.

A man may think an untruth as well as speak one.

That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.

One cannot distinguish between human and non-human acts. One cannot point, one cannot say this man here is a man and that man there is a devil.

The world will never be in any manner of order or tranquility until men are firmly convinced that conscience, honor and credit are all in one interest

Just because a man is a homicidal maniac doesn't make him wrong.

Is it possible that the environmental severity of the 1930s induced-particularly in the most aware, alert, and compassionate of [British] men-a morality which makes no sense today?