Quotes About Ethics

The more honesty a man has, the less he affects the air of a saint.

A man is what he does with his attention and mine is not for sale.

The thought of being nothing after death is a burden insupportable to a virtuous man.

Men's virtues I have commended as freely as I have taxed their crimes.

I'm not a gambling-man. I have never bet a dollar in all my life.

How can you render the duties of justice to men when they may destroy you?

There cannot any one moral rule be proposed whereof a man may not justly demand a reason.

I wonder if it's ethical to watch a man with binoculars and a long-focus lens? D'ya suppose it's ethical even if you prove that he didn't commit a crime? I'm not much on rear window ethics.

Extol not riches then, the toil of fools, The wise man's cumbrance, if not snare, more apt To slacken virtue, and abate her edge, Than prompt her to do aught may merit praise.

To brand man with infamy, and let him free, is an absurdity that peoples our forests with assassins.

Whether we force the man's property from him by pinching his stomach, or pinching his fingers, makes some difference anatomically; morally, none whatsoever.

Adherence to men, is often disloyalty to principles.

When men live as if there were no God, it becomes expedient for them that there should be none.

There is no man that is knowingly wicked but is guilty to himself; and there is no man that carries guilt about him but he receives a sting in his soul.

No man e'er felt the halter draw, With good opinion of the law.

It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished virtues.

Men of wit, learning and virtue might strike out every offensive or unbecoming passage from plays.

He that calls a man ungrateful sums up all the veil that a man can be guilty of.

A poor spirit is poorer than a poor purse. A very few pounds a year would ease a man of the scandal of avarice.

To realize the relative validity of one's convictions and yet stand for them unflinchingly is what distinguishes a civilized man from a barbarian.

Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.

Hunting is not a proper employment for a thinking man.

Sweet are the slumbers of the virtuous man.

There is no law that says a man who earned a hundred million dollars in his first half-dozen years on the job has to be a decent human being, but Mike Eisner is that and more.