Quotes About Morality

Goodness does not more certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good.

The only guide to man is his conscience.

Bertrand Russell would not have wished to be called a saint of any description; but he was a great and good man.

Man's ethics must not end with man, but should extend to the universe. He must regain the consciousness of the great Chain of Life from which he cannot be separated.

Slowly and painfully man is learning that he must do unto others what he would have them do to him.

Do you remember you shot a seagull? A man came by chance, saw it and destroyed it, just to pass the time.

An honorable man will not be bullied by a hypothesis.

The man who votes for the saloon is pulling on the same rope with the devil, whether he knows it or not.

It is hard to see how a great man can be an atheist. . . . We need to feel that behind us is intelligence and love.

Remember: sin, even if legalized by man, is still sin in the eyes of God.

Your only gain is to try to get me to fall down to your level. Man, you worser than devils.

I do not believe Tony Blair was a fundamentally good man who went bad. I believe he was evil in the first place.

Why should a Man be Moral? Because this strengthens his will.

Fairly examined, truly understood, No man is wholly bad, nor wholly good.

The man of life upright has a guiltless heart, free from all dishonest deeds or thought of vanity.

The prudent man does himself good; the virtuous one does it to other men.

A Communist breaks because he must choose at last between irreconcilable opposites-God or Man, Soul or Mind, Freedom or Communism.

In all things there must be order, but it must of such a kind as is possible to observe...to see a man burnt for doing as he thought right, harms the people, for this is a matter of conscience.

It is much easier to make good men wise, than to make bad men good.

Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye.

Evil prospers when good men do nothing.

Was ever any wicked man free from the stings of a guilty conscience?

To be upright and to have an imagination: that is enough to be a very good young man.

A tough fight against evil is the duty of good man.