Quotes About Morality

It is usually when men are at their most religious that they behave with the least sense and the greatest cruelty.

Two things strike me dumb: the infinite starry heavens, and the sense of right and wrong in man.

Animals... are there merely as a means to an end. That end is man.

Apart from moral conduct, all that man thinks himself able to do in order to become acceptable to God is mere superstition and religious folly.

This dish of meat is too good for any but anglers, or very honest men.

The weak-minded man is the slave of his vices and the dupe of his virtues.

The man who meditates is a depraved animal.

Every man has his excuses, and the more vile the man becomes, the more touching the story has to be. What is my story now, I wonder?

Good and evil, right and wrong were invented for the ordinary average man, the inferior man, because he needs them.

He who is less than just is less than man.

No man's ambitions (have) a right to stand in the way of performing a simple act of justice.

We already know that anonymous letters are despicable. In etiquette, as well as in law, hiring a hit man to do the job does not relieve you of responsibility.

Every fallen woman represents a man as guilty as herself, who escapes human detection, but whose soul lies open before God.

Remember, one just man causes the Devil greater affliction than a million blind believers.

As for a future life, every man must judge for himself between conflicting vague probabilities.

A ruthless man extends his ruthlessness from those he does not love to those he loves.

When you see a good man, think of emulating him; when you see a bad man, examine your own heart.

The gentleman sees what is right while the small man sees what is profitable.

The superior man * * * in regard to his speech * * * is anxious that it should be sincere.

In the long run, every man will pay the penalty for this own misdeeds.

Natural justice is a compact resulting from expediency by which men seek to prevent one man from injuring others and to protect him from being injured by them.

It is the wise man's part to leave in darkness everything that is ugly.

The belief in authority is the source of conscience; which is therefore not the voice of God in the heart of man, but the voice of some men in man.

There is a certain right by which we many deprive a man of life, but none by which we may deprive him of death; this is mere cruelty.