Quotes about Morality
Man has learned to cope with all questions of importance without recourse to God as a working hypothesis.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The moral man is as guilty as the rest. His morality cannot save him.
— DL Moody
The esteem of wise and good men is the greatest of all temporal encouragements to virtue; and it is a mark of an abandoned spirit to have no regard to it.
— Edmund Burke
Men have no right to what is not reasonable, and to what is not for their benefit.
— Edmund Burke
Man is by his constitution a religious animal; atheism is against not only our reason, but our instincts.
— Edmund Burke
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