Quotes About Morality

Can a man possessing conciousness ever really respect himself?

To me it seems that liberty and virtue were made for each other. If any man wish to enslave his country, nothing is a fitter preparative than vice; and nothing leads to vice so surely as irreligion.

To act with doubleness towards a man whose own conduct was double, was so near an approach to virtue that it deserved to be called by no meaner name than diplomacy.

The gods hate unjust men.

No man's faith, no man's religion, no religion in all the world can ever rise above the truth.

By twice born men a widow must not be appointed to ,cohabit with any other ,than her husband , for they who appoint ,her to another ,man , will violate the eternal law.

Such truth, as opposeth no man's profit, nor pleasure, is to all men welcome.

If it is not tempered by compassion, and empathy, reason can lead men and women into a moral void.

At some point in this death-penalty debate, the sanctity of innocent life demands that men and women of conservative conscience have to say: Enough.

Many among men are they who set high the show of honor, yet break justice.

Nor does night conceal men's deeds of ill, but whatsoe'er thou dost, think that some God beholds it.

If a man should wanton walk with crime ... he shall find in death no great deliverance.

Man is a little bit better than his reputation, and a little bit worse

I have always thought it would be easier to redeem a man steeped in vice and crime than a greedy, narrow-minded, pitiless merchant.

The principles which men give to themselves end by overwhelming their noblest intentions.

Try first to be a man of value; success will follow.

The thinking man must oppose all cruelties no matter how deeply rooted in tradition or surrounded by a halo.

The character of covetousness, is what a man generally acquires more through some niggardliness or ill grace in little and inconsiderable things, than in expenses of any consequence.

He [Napoleon] was as great as a man can be without morality.

The man who gives his own decisions priority over society is a criminal.

A man defines his standing at the court of chastity by his views of women.

To kill a man will be considered as disgusting [in the twentieth century] as we in this day consider it disgusting to eat one.

If you watch Two and a Half Men, please stop watching Two and a Half Men. I'm on Two and a Half Men and I don't want to be on it. Please stop watching it. Please stop filling your head with filth.

There are men who would do anything, asleep, and I'm not sure what stops them when they wake. I do not know how they draw the line.