Quotes About Morality

Any abuse of animals is the same as abuse of men, women, or children.

Every decent man had to be against fascism, period.

If a thing is right it can be done, and if it is wrong it can be done without; and a good man will find a way.

Nobody does good to men with impunity.

Capitalism is our only moral system. All other systems take advantage of man's rights and liberties.

It is unreasonable ... to oblige a man not to attempt the defense of his own life.

All laws which can be broken without any injury to another, are counted but a laughing-stock, and are so far from bridling the desires and lusts of men, that on the contrary they stimulate them.

Neither gods nor men can foresee when an evil deed will bear its fruit.

Of all bad men religious bad men are the worst.

Friendship (as the ancients saw) can be a school of virtue, but also (as they did not see) a school of vice. It is ambivalent. It makes good men better and bad men worse.

The life of an honest man must be a perpetual infidelity.

If I was told to sacrifice something to prove my devotion to God, if I was told to do what all monotheists are told to do and admire the man who said 'Yes I'll gut my kid to show my love of God.'

If a thief helps a poor man out of the spoils of his thieving, we must not call that charity.

Man's sense of Morality tends to decrease as his Power increases

Good men nowhere, but good boys at Sparta.

We may avoid the laws of man, but there are greater laws that can't be broken.

By hating vices too much, they come to love men too little.

When good men die their goodness does not perish, But lives though they are gone. As for the bad, All that was theirs dies and is buried with them.

One man doesn't believe in god at all, while the other believes in him so thoroughly that he prays as he murders men!

"Are you a devil?" "I am a man," answered Father Brown gravely; "and therefore have all devils in my heart."

The most dangerous criminal now is the entirely lawless modern philosopher. Compared to him, burglars and bigamists are essentially moral men.

The morality of customs,the spirit of the laws, produces the man emancipated from the law.

Man's chief moral deficiency appears to be not his indiscretions but his reticence.

There comes a time in every man's life when he is either going to go fishing or do something worse.