Quotes about Morality
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
Rich men without convictions are more dangerous in modern society than poor women without chastity.
— George Bernard Shaw
Man cannot choose his duties.
— George Eliot
The most enviable praise of all is just to be called an honest man.
— George Washington
Men do not differ much about what things they will call evils; they differ enormously about what evils they will call excusable.
— GK Chesterton
No man has ever yet been hanged for breaking the spirit of a law.
— Grover Cleveland