Quotes About Morality

He who speaks ill of an absent friend, or fails to take his part if attacked by another, that man is a scoundrel.

If evil is inevitable, how are the wicked accountable? Nay, why do we call men wicked at all? Evil is inevitable, but is also remediable.

Men always love what is good or what they find good; it is in judging what is good that they go wrong.

Bold knaves thrive without one grain of sense, But good men starve for want of impudence.

An excellent man, like precious metal, is in every way invariable; A villain, like the beams of a balance, is always varying, upwards and downwards.

No circumstances can make it necessary for a man to burst in sunder all the ties of humanity.

Every man is to be considered in two capacities, the private and public; as designed to pursue his own interest, and likewise to contribute to the good of others.

From men motivated by moral certitude, history teaches, no lasting good ever comes.

Loyalty is a good for the loyal man; but it may be mischievous for those whom his cause assails.

Men have never been good, they are not good and they never will be good.

A man that will go along with six killings is making his escape a little slow.

Men are often bad, but babies never are.

There is but one thing of real value - to cultivate truth and justice, and to live without anger in the midst of lying and unjust men.

The evil implanted in man by nature spreads so imperceptibly, when the habit of wrong-doing is unchecked, that he himself can set no limit to his shamelessness.

Choice is the essence of ethics: if there were no choice there would be no ethics, no good, no evil; good and evil have meaning only insofar as man is free to choose.

If men only believe enough in Christ they can commit adultery and murder a thousand times a day without periling their salvation.

But no man has a monopoly of conscience.

Mankind fears an evil man but heaven does not.

Once a woman parts with her virtue, she loses the esteem even of the man whose vows and tears won her to abandon it.

Wherever it has been established that it is shameful to be involved with sexual relationships with men, that is due to evil on the part of the rulers, and to cowardice on the part of the governed.

A companion is but another self; wherefore it is an argument that a man is wicked if he keep company with the wicked.

One man's wickedness may easily become all men's curse.

We do not homeschool to avoid wicked people. We homeschool so we wicked people can talk all day about the one Man who wasn't wicked.

The sky and the earth and the waters and the things that are in them, the fishes, and the birds and the trees are not evil. All these are good; it is evil men who make this evil world.