Quotes About Morality

A man with a machine may murder or enslave millions, whereas it used to take at least thousands to murder millions. And the man behind the machine has nothing on his conscience.

For although Claudius had been accused of gambling and drunkenness, not only were no worse sins laid to his charge, but he had successfully established some claim to being considered a learned man.

The dignity of man into your hands is given; Oh, keep it well, with you it sinks or lifts itself to heaven.

For what is man without desires, without free will, and without the power of choice but a stop in an organ pipe?

In sinning, each man sins against all, and each man is at least partly guilt for another's sin. There is no isolated sin.

Those who are ashamed of what they ought not to be ashamed; and are not ashamed of what they ought to be - such men, embracing erroneous views, enter the woeful path.

If a man offend a harmless, pure, and innocent person, the evil falls back upon that fool, like light dust thrown up against the wind.

A good man with a good conscience doesn't walk so fast.

Rich men without convictions are more dangerous in modern society than poor women without chastity.

Some persons, by hating vice too much, come to love men too little. Hatred is self-punishment. Hatred is the cowards revenge for being intimidated.

Man cannot choose his duties.

A noble birth and fortune, though they make not a bad man good, yet they are a real advantage to a worthy one and place his virtues in a fairer light.

The most enviable praise of all is just to be called an honest man.

A man given to vice is always an idealist.

Men do not differ much about what things they will call evils; they differ enormously about what evils they will call excusable.

You are already of consequence in the world if you are known as a man of strict integrity.

No man has ever yet been hanged for breaking the spirit of a law.

The enforcement of the law cannot depend on the justice of a cause or one man's conscience.

It is generally understood that men don't aspire after the absolute right, but only to do about as well as the rest of the world.

Man is saved by love and duty, and by the hope that springs from duty, or rather from the moral facts of consciousness, as a flower springs from the soil.

The passage from the state of nature to the civil state produces a very remarkable change in man, by substituting justice for instinct in his conduct.

The moral and spiritual aspects of both personal and international relationships have a practical bearing which so-called practical men deny.

If the alternative is to keep all just men in prison, or give up war and slavery, the State will not hesitate which to choose.

There is but little virtue in the action of masses of men.