Quotes About Morality

It is much easier to ruin a man of principle than a man of none, for he may be ruined through his scruples. Knavery is supple and can bend; but honesty is firm and upright, and yields not.

Do what you believe to be right, and ever hold it for a maxim, that if the skies fall through your doing right, honest men will survive the ruin.

I have never known a man who was sensual in his youth, who was high-minded when old.

The superior man is quiet and calm, waiting for the appointments of heaven, while the mean man walks in dangerous paths, looking for lucky occurrences.

If a man has no humaneness what can his propriety be like? If a man has no humaneness what can his happiness be like?

Fortune provides a man's table with luxuries, virtue with only a frugal meal.

Great abundance of riches cannot be gathered and kept by any man without sin.

I've had six or eight hookers in my life. I never woke up the next day thinking man I'm glad I got a hooker last night.

Even the most sadistic and destructive man is human, as human as the saint.

Modern man has not only thrown away Christian theology, he has thrown away the possibility of what our forefathers had as a basis for morality and law.

Hell is paved with good intentions, not with bad ones. All men mean well.

The politician who steals is worse than a thief. He is a fool. With all the grand opportunities around for the man with a political pull, there's no excuse for stealin' a cent.

Think on this doctrine, - that reasoning beings were created for one another's sake; that to be patient is a branch of justice, and that men sin without intending it.

Through ignorance of what is good and what is bad, the life of men is greatly perplexed.

Sensual excess drives out pity in man.

Scientific man is already on the moon, and yet we are still living with the moral concepts of Homer.

When men don't fear god, they give themselves to evil

If you do not believe that a man will commit murder for one can of tomatoes, then you have never been hungry.

We need men with moral courage to speak and write their real thoughts, and to stand by their convictions, even to the very death.

Hail to the man who went through life always helping others, knowing no fear, and to whom aggressiveness and resentment are alien. Such is the stuff of which the great moral leaders are made.

A man is truly ethical only when he obeys the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist, and shrinks from injuring anything that lives.

An insult directed at the wicked is not to be censured; on the contrary, the honest man, if he has sense, can only applaud.

Men become builders by building and lyreplayers by playing the lyre; so too we become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.

A basically dishonest man can survive longer in the church or the classroom than he can in the grain exchange or the furniture business.