Quotes About Morality

Well, I love fishing. I wouldn't kill a fly myself but I've no hesitation in killing a fish. A lot of men are like that. No bother. Out you come. Thump. And that's not the only reason.

The man of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys.

Men of sound sense have Law for their god, but men without sense Pleasure.

Lying is a most disgraceful vice; it first despises God, and then fears men.

To do an evil action is base; to do a good action without incurring danger is common enough; but it is the part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risks every thing.

Do we need more laws? God forbid! We need more righteousness, more freedom, and more godly men -- and fewer laws.

Man has an innate capacity for violence, but can only justify it in the name of justice.

Unhappily, no man exists who has not in his own person become, to some amount, a stockholder in the sin, and so made himself liable to a share in the expiation.

No one can be wrong with man and right with God.

It is truly enough said that a corporation has no conscience, but a corporation of conscientious men is a corporation with a conscience.

Any nobleness begins at once to refine a man's features, any meanness or sensuality to imbrute them.

Men are guided less by conscience than by glory; and yet the shortest way to glory is to be guided by conscience.

A man who does not know how to be angry, does not know how to be good. Now and then a man should be shaken to the core with indignation over things evil.

It is a hard thing for a man to be righteous, if the unrighteous man is to have the greater right.

A man can't hit a woman and stay a man. He becomes a loathsome thing, even to himself. But the woman who stays with such a man panders to his darkness. They both risk their souls.

It's okay for a man to commit adultery if his wife is ugly.

A lie is the abandonment and, as it were, the annihilation of the dignity by man.

No matter how brilliant a man may be, he will never engender confidence in his subordinates and associates if he lacks simple honesty and moral courage.

Good and evil keep very exact accounts... and the face of every man is their ledger.

Men are not great or small because of their material possessions. They are great or small because of what they are.

What is the life of a man more than the life of a lamb, or any guiltless animal?

I mean one of the basic rules when you're acting is that you mustn't stand in judgement on a character, you mustn't say Hitler was a bad man because you can't act in that way.

To say of men that they are bad is to say they are worse than we think we are, or worse than the ideal man whose image we have built up on the basis of a certain few.

We are not naïve enough to ask for pure men; we ask merely for men whose impurity does not conflict with the obligations of their job.