Quotes About Ethics

A man fashions ill for himself who fashions ill for another, and the ill design is most ill for the designer.

Men must sweat to attain virtue.

Often an entire city has suffered because of an evil man.

Evil deeds do not prosper; the slow man catches up with the swift.

Man is neither good nor bad; he is born with instincts and abilities.

Never inquire into another man's secret; bur conceal that which is intrusted to you, though pressed both be wine and anger to reveal it.

He who cannot resist temptation is not a man. Whoever yields to temptation debases himself with a debasement from which he can never arise.

There are very few persons who pursue science with true dignity.

Riches ennoble a man's circumstances, but not himself.

No man speaketh, or should speak, of his prince, that which he hath not weighed whether it will consist with that veneration which should be preserved inviolate to him.

A man does not necessarily sin who does that which our reason and our conscience condemn.

The American people rightly look to their military leaders to be not only skilled in the technical aspects of the profession of arms, but to be men of integrity

I think of a man and I take away reason and accountability.

Man's destiny is nowhere spelled out, nor is his duty.

But for we could not know right from wrong. All things most desirable for man's welfare... are to be found portrayed in it.

Just laws are no restraint upon the freedom of the good, for the good man desires nothing which a just law will interfere with.

Has it ever struck you that trout bite best on the Sabbath? God's critters tempting decent men.

Be NOBLE! and the nobleness that liesIn other men, sleeping, but never dead,Will rise in majesty to meet thine own.

It is motive alone that gives real value to the actions of men, and disinterestedness puts the cap to it.

Science had better not free the minds of men too much, before it has tamed their instincts.

Better to have beasts that let themselves be killed than men who run away.

Conscience in most men, is but the anticipation of the opinions of others.

In a sluggish economy, never, ever f*** with another man's livelihood.

What do I owe to my times, to my country, to my neighbors, to my friends? Such are the questions which a virtuous man ought often to ask himself.