Quotes About Morality

Happy the man whom indulgent fortune allows to pay to virtue what he owes to nature, and to make a generous gift of what must otherwise be ravished from him by cruel necessity.

Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame.

(Clothes) cannot change a man's nature. He's either kind or he isn't, with or without clothes.

Man is neither by birth nor disposition a savage, nor of unsocial habits, but only becomes so by indulging in vices contrary to his nature.

We must be cruel as well as compassionate: let us guard against becoming poorer than nature is!

What astonishes many of us is not so much that human nature is fundamentally corrupt; we are astonished rather that it does not behave more wickedly than it obviously does.

I never use the words HUMANIST or HUMANITARIAN, as it seems to me that to be human is to be capable of the most heinous crimes in nature.

I'm human. That's how humans spend their time, doing shitty things.

Sin is present in everyone as a nature before it expresses itself in deeds

Vice is man's nature: virtue is a habit--or a mask.

The state of nature has a law of nature to govern it, which obliges every one: and reason, which is that law, teaches all mankind, who will but consult it.

Nature has placed the need to see justice done in some souls, and the need to flout and affront it in others.

And Nature takes no account of moral consequences, of arbitrary conditions which we create, and which we feel obliged to maintain at any cost.

Of all things, none does not revere the Way and honor virtue. Reverence of the Way and honoring virtue were not demanded of them, but it is in their nature.

The order of nature [is] that individual happiness shall be inseparable from the practice of virtue.

No one should dogmatize about the capacity of human nature for degradation or exaltation.

Not in opinion but in nature is law founded.

Law is the highest reason implanted in Nature, which commands what ought to be done and forbids the opposite.

If nature does not ratify law, then all the virtues may lose their sway.

Justice is the idea of God, the ideal of man, the rule of conduct writ in the nature of mankind.

Whether the law of marriage be instituted or not, the dictate of nature and virtue seems to be an early attachment to one woman.

Many people genuinely do not wish to be saints, and it is possible that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have never had much temptation to be human beings.

All human beings, as we meet them, are commingled out of good and evil.

All humans are rogues. Cured only by death.