Quotes About Ethics

God wants man to fulfill his commands as a human being and with the quality peculiar to human beings.

The law is not thrust upon man; it rests deep within him, to waken when the call comes.

Man must never be treated as a means to the end of the state, but always as an end within himself.

If none were to Marry, but Men of strict Vertue and Honour, I doubt the World would be but thinly peopled.

When a man seduces a woman, it should, I think, be termed a left-handed marriage.

No modest man ever did or ever will make a fortune.

If a railroad is bent, the train shall turn over; if a man's character is bent, he shall turn over just like that train.

The great man does not think beforehand of his words that they may be sincere, nor of his actions that they may be resolute- he simply speaks and does what is right.

The wise man lives as long as he ought, not so long as he can.

There is no man so good that if he placed all his actions and thoughts under the scrutiny of the laws, he would not deserve hanging ten times in his life.

Nature has, herself, I fear, imprinted in man a kind of instinct to inhumanity.

Few women care what a man looks like, and a good thing too.

Therefore, vegetarianism alone can give us the quality of com-passion, which distinguishes man from the rest of the animal world.

Public esteem is the recompense of honest men.

A man without nobility cannot have kindliness; he can only have good nature.

The abortionist I worked for, he's a very greedy man, a selfish man.

To leave the world a little better than you found it. That's the best a man can ever do.

Man was lost if he went to a usurer, for the interest ran faster than a tiger upon him.

For this is the most civil sort of lie That can be given to a man's face. I now Say what I think.

I do not believe that one can become rich without being a shark; a sensitive man will never amass wealth.

I'm one of those that believes you can't be one kind of a man and another kind of president.

There is no man suddenly either excellently good or extremely evil, but grows either as he holds himself up in virtue or lets himself slide to viciousness.

The attainment of a just society is the cherished hope of civilized men.

You may be sure, dear Crito, that inaccurate language is not only in itself a mistake: it implants evil in men's souls.