Quotes About Ethics

A good man is kinder to his enemy than bad men are to their friends.

Power tempts even the best of men to take liberties with the truth.

It is true that wealth won't make a man virtuous, but I notice there ain't anybody who wants to be poor just for the purpose of being good.

The greatest man is he who forms the taste of a nation; the next greatest is he who corrupts it.

Men who ape the saint and play the sinner.

Man, wretched man, whene'er he stoops to sin, Feels, with the act, a strong remorse within.

A doctor is not a religious man. You should never give people vague hope or possibility.

Good men are bad men's instructors, And bad men are good men's materials.

A day will come in which men will look upon an animal's murder the same way they look today upon a man's murder.

I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself.

He had kept The whiteness of his soul, and thus men o'er him wept.

A man whose life has been dishonourable is not entitled to escape disgrace in death.

Men say I am a saint losing himself in politics. The fact is that I am a politician trying my hardest to become a saint.

Nonviolence is the virtue of the manly. The coward is innocent of it.

The man who coerces another not to eat fish commits more violence than he who eats it.

Inability to tell good from evil is the greatest worry of man's life.

No man can be brave who thinks pain the greatest evil; nor temperate, who considers pleasure the highest good.

Justice is the set and constant purpose which gives every man his due.

Men think they may justly do that for which they have a precedent.

And I must believe that man has the power to know the right, to choose between good and evil and know that his choice has made a difference.

The senator's actions in the hours and days after emerging from that pond tell us something ugly about Kennedy the man. That he got away with it tell us something ugly about American public life.

Man is kind enough when he is not excited by religion

A man's first duty is to his own conscience and honor; the party and country come second to that, and never first.

Conscience, man's moral medicine chest.