Quotes About Morality

An honest man nearly always thinks justly.

It is possible that a wise and good man may be prevailed on to game; but it is impossi?ble that a professed gamester should be a wise and good man.

A thief, though rich, will continue to steal, but an honest man, though poor, will ever seek to pay his debts.

I do not love a man, except I hate his vices, because those vices are the enemies, and the destruction of that friend whom I love.

She didn't like the fact that she had reduced a man – no matter how evil he might be—to a drooling idiot.

A man is free in proportion to the measure of his virtues, and the extent to which he is free determines what his virtues can accomplish.

When I heard that Hitler had problems with flatulence, it's funny. What - does that make him a funny man? No. It means he had funny moments when his rear end was speaking louder than his mouth.

The laws of man may bind him in chains or may put him to death, but they never can make him wise, virtuous, or happy.

Men always grow vicious before they become unbelievers.

To be perfectly just is an attribute of the divine nature; to be so to the utmost of our abilities, is the glory of man.

It is more difficult to be an honorable man for a week than to be a hero for fifteen minutes.

You know that murder is wicked. If you saw your master kill a man, do you suppose this would be any excuse for you, if you should commit the same crime?

Why does man have reason if he can only be influenced by violence?

The Greatest evils inflicted by man over the face of the Earth are wrought not by the self-seekers, the pleasure lovers, or the merely amoral, but by the fervent devotees of ethical principles.

Go into the street, and give one man a lecture on morality, and another a shilling, and see which will respect you most.

In every good man a God doth dwell.

Virtue does not come from wealth, but wealth, and every other good thing which men have comes from virtue.

Man has free choice, or otherwise counsels, exhortations, commands, prohibitions, rewards and punishments would be in vain.

Great is the difference betwixt a man's being frightened at, and humbled for his sins.

The best men are the least suspicious of fraudulent purposes.

The school-room sends men to the Legislature, to the bench, and the executive office. The bar-room sends them to the scaffold and hell.

A bad cause will ever be supported by bad means and bad men.

In the animal world no creature born to be a dove turns into a scavenger. This happens only among men.

Heaven takes care that no man secures happiness by crime.