Quotes about Morality
The thinking man must oppose all cruelties no matter how deeply rooted in tradition or surrounded by a halo.
— Albert Schweitzer
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.
— Aristotle
The virtue of the good man is necessarily the same as the virtue of the citizen of the perfect state.
— Aristotle
Man's character is the product of his premises.
— Ayn Rand
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.
— CS Lewis
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.
— CS Lewis
Sincerity is that whereby self-completion is effected, and its way is that by which man must direct himself.
— Confucius
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.
— Confucius
Evil succeeds when good men do nothing
— Edmund Burke
What is man? Ally of God or simply his toy? His triumph or his fall?
— Elie Wiesel
There is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between men.
— Epicurus
In sinning, each man sins against all, and each man is at least partly guilt for another's sin. There is no isolated sin.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky