Character Quote by William Edward Hartpole Lecky

Some handsome and ambitious men believe they are above all morality, and a woman's virtue becomes a mere challenge to them.

— William Safire

Besides reasoning about matters of fact, men also make moral judgements.

— C. S. Lewis

To discover the true principles of morality, men have no need of theology, of revelation, or of gods. They need but common sense. They…

— Jean Meslier

Morals are an acquirement - like music, like a foreign language, like piety, poker, paralysis - no man is born with them.

— Mark Twain

Morality is character and conduct such as is required by the circle or community in which the man's life happens to be placed. It…

— Henry Ward Beecher

Many a man renounces morals, but with great difficulty the conception, 'morality.' Morality is the 'idea' of morals, their intellectual power, their power over…

— Max Stirner

What we take for virtue is often but an assemblage of various ambitions and activities that chance, or our own astuteness, have arranged in…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

No justification of virtue will enable a man to be virtuous. Without the aid of trained emotions the intellect is powerless against the animal…

— Anonymous

Morals are built on religious faith. Virtue is built on morality and influences a culture.

— Michele Bachmann

Men are more accountable for their motives, than for anything else; and primarily, morality consists in the motives, that is in the affections.

— Archibald Alexander

“But virtue, by the bare statement of its actions, can so affect men's minds as to create at once both admiration of the things…

— Plutarch

Most men are more willing to indulge in easy vices than to practise laborious virtues.

— Samuel Johnson