Quotes About Morality

We're living in times where men commit crimes and crime don't have a face.

A just law is a man-made code that squares with the moral law, or the law of God. An unjust law is a code that is out of harmony with the moral law.

The good man makes others good.

Democracy without God is mans worship and elevation of himself and his own intelligence or humanism, where man becomes his own measure for morality, judgment, and justice.

Men never do good unless necessity drives them to it; but when they are free to choose and can do just as they please, confusion and disorder become rampant.

Maimonides taught that it is better that 10 criminals go free than let one innocent man be executed. The Innocence Project represents that point of view.

Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey the laws too well.

The upright, honest-hearted man Who strives to do the best he can, Need never fear the church's ban Or hell's damnation.

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.

Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it, a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.

Let no man be sorry he has done good, because others have done evil.

Rather a man with 50 per cent ability and 100 per cent character than a man with 100 per cent ability and 50 per cent character.

If it were not for injustice, men would not know justice.

Often even a whole city suffers for a bad man who sins and contrives presumptuous deeds.

You will ever remember that all the end of study is to make you a good man and a useful citizen.

Nothing that isn't a real crime makes a man appear so contemptible and little in the eyes of the world as inconsistency.

Man is my brother, and I am nearer related to him through his vices than I am through his virtue.

The immorality of men triumphs over the amorality of women.

The recognition of the sanctity of the life of every man is the first and only basis of all morality.

Why is there this criminal indifference to the lostness of men? Our condemnation is that we know how to live better than we are living.

As a rule, there is no surer way to the dislike of men than to behave well where they have behaved badly.

Men are not to be judged by their looks, habits, and appearances; but by the character of their lives and conversations, and by their works.

When, therefore, man lives according to man, not according to God, he is like the devil.

No one can harm the man who does himself no wrong.