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Quotes About Morality

If man had a sense of proportion, he would die of shame.
~ J. M. Ledgard
I am aware that no man is a villain in his own eyes.
~ James A. Baldwin
What is called virtue in the common sense of the word has nothing to do with this or that man's prosperity, or even happiness.
~ James Anthony Froude
Man has long found solace in good talk to offset bad conduct.
~ James Harvey Robinson
What is here a right towards men, is a duty towards the Creator.
~ James Madison
He's true to God who's true to man.
~ James Russell Lowell
Man Of Steel looks great, is well cast, and is, moralistically, completely rotten to the core.
~ Jamie McKelvie
He's a good man," Ranger said. "And you?" "I'm better.
~ Janet Evanovich
In all conditions of life a poor man is a near neighbor to an honest one, and a rich man is as little removed from a knave.
~ Jean de la Bruyere
Men blush less for their crimes than for their weaknesses and vanity. [Fr., Les hommes rougissent moins de leur crimes que de leurs faiblesses et de leur vanite.]
~ Jean de la Bruyere
Where princes are concerned, a man who is able to do good is as dangerous and almost as criminal as a man who intends to do evil.
~ Jean Francois Paul de Gondi
Most men only commit great crimes because of their scruples about petty ones.
~ Jean Francois Paul de Gondi
I committed the first crime by creating men as mortals. After that, what more could you do, you the murderers? Come on; they already had death in them: at most you simply hastened things a little.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
We do not wish to say only that a man is responsible for his own individuality, but that he is responsible for that of all men.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
God, there's teaching biology and teaching sexuality, and it's two separate things. They mix it and make it more of a morality thing where it's like, "A man and woman have a baby."
~ Jen Kirkman
In matters of conscience that is the best sense which every wise man takes in before he hath sullied his understanding with the designs of sophisters and interested persons.
~ Jeremy Taylor
According to the virginity movement, men have no self-control when it comes to anything sexual.
~ Jessica Valenti
But how right is it to kill a man for something that is in his soul?
~ Jessie Burton
A man should live his life a certain way not because of some divine authority, but because of a personal moral obligation to himself and others.
~ Jodi Picoult
That's a huge part foul man; that's just not cool.
~ Joe Teti
As the interest of man, so his God - as his God, so he.
~ Johann Kaspar Lavater
The suffering may be moral or physical; and in my opinion it is just as absurd to call a man a coward who destroys himself, as to call a man a coward who dies of a malignant fever.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Noble be man, helpful and good!
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The ground that a good man treads is hallowed.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe