Quotes About Ethics

Hanging was the worst use a man could be put to.

An ambassador is an honest man sent abroad to lie for his country.

One of the few lessons I have learnt from studying people who do terrible things is that they are all too human. And that we are all capable of doing almost anything.

Never ascribe to an opponent motives meaner than your own.

Virtue is its own reward. There's a pleasure in doing good which sufficiently pays itself.

I've often thought that my scruples about stealing books were the only thing that stood in the way of my being a really great scholar.

I like the English. They have the most rigid code of immorality in the world.

think I none so simple would say that Aesop lied in the tales of his beasts: for who thinks that Aesop writ it for actually true were well worthy to have his name chronicled among the beasts he writeth of.

Men are not to be judged by their looks, habits, and appearances, but by the character of their lives and conversations. ?Tis better that a man?s own works than another man?s words should praise him.

Do what thy manhood bids thee do, from none but self expect applause; He noblest lives and noblest dies who makes and keeps his self-made laws. All other Life is living Death, a world where none but Phantoms dwell, A breath, a wind, a sound, a voice, a tinkling of the camel-bell.

Vegetarianism is harmless enough, although it is apt to fill a man with wind and self-righteousness.

To be nameless in worthy deeds exceeds an infamous history.

There is no road or ready way to virtue.

They have no lawyers among them, for they consider them as a sort of people whose profession it is to disguise matters.

Rules only make sense if they are both kept and broken. Breaking the rule is one way of observing it.

You cannot believe in honor until you have achieved it.

Better were it to be unborn than to be ill bred.

It is better that ten guilty persons escape than one innocent suffer.

The king, moreover, is not only incapable of doing wrong, but even of thinking wrong: he can never mean to do an improper thing: in him is no folly or weakness.

As some day it may happen that a victim must be found,I've got a little list—I've got a little list.Of society offenders who might well be underground,And who never would be missed—who never would be missed.

Human status ought not to depend upon the changing demands of the economic process.

I'm not sure that love is an excuse for everything

Drowning, she clung fiercely to that small, splintered piece of mast bobbing in the ocean we call justice. There is no justice, of course, or very little of it, and counting on it as a life raft is a big mistake.

She meant that if your conscience holds you back, if it muddles the purity of your desire, if it gives you mixed feelings, don't do it.