Quotes About Morality

...the essential intention is the real sin. A man who cannot choose ceases to be a man.

God makes all things good; Man meddles with 'em and they become evil.

Excellence or virtue in a man will be the disposition which renders him a good man and also which will cause him to perform his function well.

Perhaps here we have a clue to the reason why royal rule used to exist formerly, namely the difficulty of finding enough men of outstanding virtue.

Men are good in but one way, but bad in many.

The good man is he for whom, because he is virtuous, the things that are absolutely good are good; it is also plain that his use of these goods must be virtuous and in the absolute sense good.

Men regard it as their right to return evil for evil and, if they cannot, feel they have lost their liberty.

The virtue of the good man is necessarily the same as the virtue of the citizen of the perfect state.

Since the generality of persons act from impulse, much more than from principle, men are neither so good nor so bad as we are apt to think them.

When personal judgment is inoperative (or forbidden), men's first concern is not how to choose, but how to justify their choice

Man's character is the product of his premises.

The question is this - Is man an ape or an angel? My Lord, I am on the side of the angels. I repudiate with indignation and abhorrence these new fanged theories.

No man is bound to be rich or great, - no, nor to be wise; but every man is bound to be honest.

I don't know what a man is. Only that every man has his price.

My Christian faith teaches me marriage is between man and a woman. I'm not evolving with the polls. I'm not changing like Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama.

The evil that men do lives on the front pages of greedy newspapers, but the good is oft interred apathetically inside.

I cannot understand how a man can appear in print claiming to disbelieve everything that he presupposes when he puts on the surplice. I feel it is a form of prostitution.

We have lost the invaluable faculty of being shocked a faculty which has hitherto almost distinguished the Man or Woman from the beast or child.

The upright, if he suffer calumny to move him, fears the tongue of man more than the eye of God.

Amongst the sons of men how few are known Who dare be just to merit not their own.

Nothing that man ever invents will absolve him from the universal necessity of being good as God is good, righteous as God is righteous, and holy as God is holy.

I am not aware that payment, or even favors, however gracious, bind any man's soul and conscience in questions of highest morality and highest importance.

Many an honest man practices upon himself an amount of deceit sufficient, if practised upon another, and in a little different way, to send him to the state prison.

No man is a good citizen, a good neighbor, a good friend, or a good man just because he obeys the law. The intrinsic worth is determined mainly by the intrinsic make-up.