Quotes About Morality

Man has made 32 million laws since the Commandments were handed down to Moses on Mount Sinai... but he has never improved on God's law.

Every act of every man is a moral act, to be tested by moral, and not by economic criteria.

I believe that George Washington knew the City of Man cannot survive without the City of God; that the Visible City will perish without the Invisible City.

Moral character is assessed not by what a man knows but by what he loves

The good man, though a slave, is free; the wicked, though he reigns, is a slave, and not the slave of a single man, but- what is worse - the slave of as many masters as he has vices.

As the greatest liar tells more truths than falsehoods, so may it be said of the worst man, that he does more good than evil.

Faction seldom leaves a man honest, however it might find him.

It is generally agreed, that few men are made better by affluence or exaltation.

So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

Those vices [luxury and neglect of decent manners] are vices of men, not of the times. [Lat., Hominum sunt ista [vitia], non temporum.

We're flimflam artists. But remember, sonny, you can't con people unless they're greedy to begin with. W. C. Fields had it right. You can't cheat an honest man.

I'm a man of honour, a truthful person, a gentleman of absolute morality .

Difficult, say you? Difficult to be a man of virtue, truly good, shaped and fashioned without flaw in the perfect figure of four-squared excellence, in body and mind, in act and thought?

In restoring man from evil sovereignty, we must cheat.

It has been said that absolute power corrupts absolutely, but many it not be truer to say that to be absolutely powerful a man must first corrupt himself?

The jurisdiction of a good man extends to the end of the world.

But man is freer than all the animals, on account of his free-will, with which he is endowed above all other animals.

The best men of the best epochs are simply those who make the fewest blunders and commit the fewest sins.

Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.

The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught.

What I cannot live with may not bother another man's conscience. The result is that conscience will stand against conscience.

Law never made men a whit more just.

A man that puts himself on the ground of moral principle, if the whole world be against him, is mightier than all of them.

The just man having a firm grasp of his intentions, neither the heated passions of his fellow men ordaining something awful, nor a tyrant staring him in the face, will shake in his convictions.