Quotes About Morality

It takes a man to make a devil.

Evil men of every degree will use you, flatter you, lead you on until you are useless; then, if the virtuous do not pity you, or God compassionate, you are without a friend in the universe.

Why is not a rat as good as a rabbit? Why should men eat shrimps and neglect cockroaches?

There is not on earth so base a knave as the man who wins the love of a woman when he knows that he cannot or ought not to requite it.

Religion is only another word for the right use of a man's whole self, instead of a wrong use of himself.

God's men are better than the devil's men, and they ought to act as though they thought they were.

Morality is character and conduct such as is required by the circle or community in which the man's life happens to be placed. It shows how much good men require of us.

No great question will ever be settled in dollars and cents. Great questions must be settled on moral grounds and the tests of what makes free men.

I will live and die by this testimony: that I loved a good conscience; that I never invaded another man's liberty; and that I preserved my own.

Think of it. To go down to posterity as a 'man who lived among the cannibals.'

Let us be Christians toward our fellow-whites, as well as philanthropists toward the blacks our fellow-men. In all things, and toward all, we are enjoined to do as we would be done by.

There was not after all a single kind of strife, but on earth there are two kinds: one of them a man might praise when he recognized her, but the other is blameworthy.

A man who stops at nothing short of the law is very clever indeed!

Conscience is a cudgel which all men pick up in order to thwack their neighbors instead of applying it to their own shoulders.

Who is a good man? He who keeps the decrees of the fathers, and both human and divine laws. [Lat., Vir bonus est quis? Qui consulta patrum, qui leges juraque servat.]

No one is born without vices, and he is the best man who is encumbered with the least.

Even virtue followed beyond reason's rule May stamp the just man knave, the sage a fool.

If a man's religion does not affect his use of money, that man's religion is vain.

No hell will frighten men away from sin; no dread of prospective misery; only goodness can cast hell out of any man, and set up the kingdom of heaven within.

Morality will be very difficult for the man who does not pray.

I come from the liberal side of thinking: Better one guilty man should walk free than one innocent man found guilty.

Whether arrived at through reason or revelation, natural law is the highest law known to man. It is anchored in the very existential nature of man and is therefore a priori just.

Man is a responsible moral agent, though he is also divinely controlled; man is divinely controlled, though he is also a responsible moral agent.

A tiny little wooden man [was] slowly ascending the steps to a real set of gallows, both perched on a box that read: Reusable Hangman — Spell It Or He'll Swing!