Quotes about Morality
What we call God's justice is only man's idea of what he would do if he were God.
- Elbert Hubbard
The guilty man may escape, but he cannot be sure of doing so.
- Epicurus
Keep alive the light of justice, And much that men say in blame will pass you by.
- Euripides
Thus, as a result of heightened consciousness, a man feels as if it's all right if he's bad as long as he knows it- as though that were any consolation.
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
A man's behaviour may be quite harmless and even beneficial, when he ismorally behaving like a scoundrel. And he may do great harm when he is morally acting on the highest principles.
- George Bernard Shaw
The yoke a man creates for himself by wrong-doing will breed hate in the kindliest nature.
- George Eliot
The sane man knows that he has a touch of the beast, a touch of the devil, a touch of the saint, a touch of the citizen. Nay, the really sane man knows that he has a touch of the madman.
- GK Chesterton
We ought to be interested in that darkest and most real part of a man in which dwell not the vices that he does not display, but the virtues that he cannot.
- GK Chesterton
There is a case for telling the truth; there is a case for avoiding the scandal; but there is no possible defense for the man who tells the scandal, but does not tell the truth.
- GK Chesterton
Men may keep a sort of level of good, but no man has ever been able to keep on one level of evil.
- GK Chesterton
If man is not special, if he's not deeply different from any other thing, then there's no good reason not to treat him just like any other thing when it's convenient for us to do so.
- Greg Koukl
Non-violence does not signify that man must not fight against the enemy, and by enemy is meant the evil which men do, not the human beings themselves.
- Mahatma Gandhi