Quotes About Morality

When a man is ill his very goodness is sickly.

Who is the honest man? He that doth still and strongly good pursue To God, his neighbor, and himself most true: Whom neither force nor fawning can Unpin, or wrench from giving all their due.

There is no creature on earth half so terrifying as a truly just man.

Middle-class people are becoming desperate. It can cause a moral man to break bad.

Odd, isn't it, that a thief and a vagabond should repent, when so many who are rich and secure remain hard and frivolous, and without fruit for God or man?

Compromise: An agreement between two men to do what both agree is wrong.

It is the act of a bad man to deceive by falsehood.

It is often the case that a man who can't tell a lie thinks he is the best judge of one.

The law which attempts a man's life [capital punishment] is impractical, unjust, inadmissible. It has never repressed crime - for a second crime is every day committed at the foot of the scaffold.

For it is, and must remain, the case that we must obey God rather than man.

An honest man is all right even if he's an idiot...but a crook must have brains.

Violence is a choice a man makes and he alone is responsible for it.

You can either be a con or a man—you can't be both.

Humanity is not perfect in any fashion; no more in the case of evil than in that of good. The criminal has his virtues, just as the honest man has his weaknesses.

When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income.

To an honest man, it is an honor to have remembered his duty.

Most men are afraid of a bad name, but few fear their consciences.

Original sin is that thing about man which makes him capable of conceiving of his own perfection and incapable of achieving it.

What matters to us, the judgment of men? What have we to doubt, since we are pure before life?

Such are the heights of wickedness to which men are driven by religion.

Learn to admire rightly; the great pleasure of life is that. Note what the great men admired; they admired great things; narrow spirits admire basely, and worship meanly.

To justify God's ways to man.

God is not necessary to create culpability, or to punish. Our fellow men are enough for that, helped by ourselves.

Nothing causes more consternation in a group of hypocrits than one honest man.