Quotes About Morality

I didn't want to send a man to hell on an empty stomach.

The superior man has a dignified ease without pride. The mean man has pride without a dignified ease.

A person of character takes as much trouble to discover what is right as the lesser men take to discover what will pay.

Even in killing men, observe the rules of propriety.

Possessed of courage but devoid of morality, a superior man will make trouble while a small man will be a brigand.

Sincerity is that whereby self-completion is effected, and its way is that by which man must direct himself.

If a superior man abandon virtue, how can he fulfil the requirements of that name?

The man of noble mind seeks to achieve the good in others and not their evil. The little-minded man is the reverse of this.

When a man resists sin on human motive only, he will not hold out long.

Too great a sense of identity makes a man feel he can do no wrong. And too little does the same.

Lenny Bruce is a very moral man trying to improve the world and trying to make audiences think

Man is an animal that diddles, and there is no animal that diddles but man.

The poorest being that crawls on earth, contending to save itself from injustice and oppression, is an object respectable in the eyes of God and man.

No man can mortgage his injustice as a pawn for his fidelity.

There is in man a conscience which outlives the sensations the sensations, resolutions, and emotions of the hour, and rises above them all.

This is the essential evil of vice: it debases a man.

Whatever touches the nerves of motive, whatever shifts man's moral position, is mightier than steam, or calorie, or lightening.

Man must vanquish himself, must do himself violence, in order to perform the slightest action untainted by evil.

There is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between men.

To conceive the good, in fact, is not sufficient; it must be made to succeed among men. To accomplish this less pure paths must be followed.

If a woman goes out with different men on different days, women only will question her character and call her all sort of names.

When a bee stings, she dies. She cannot sting and live. When men sting, their better selves die. Every sting kills a better instinct. Men must not turn bees and kill themselves in stinging others.

There is no vice that doth so cover a man with shame as to be found false and perfidious.

I call God to witness that as a private person I have done nothing unbeseeming an honest man, nor, as I bear the place of a public man, have I done anything unworthy of my place.