Quotes About Ethics

It is as expedient that a wicked man be punished as that a sick man be cured by a physician; for all chastisement is a kind of medicine.

Every unjust man is unjust against his will.

The giving of riches and honors to a wicked man is like giving strong wine to him that hath a fever.

Moral habits, induced by public practices, are far quicker in making their way into men's private lives, than the failings and faults of individuals are in infecting the city at large.

Cato requested old men not to add the disgrace of wickedness to old age, which was accompanied with many other evils.

The greater a man is in power above others, the more he ought to excel them in virtue. None ought to govern who is not better than the governed.

The greatest object in the universe, says a certain philosopher, is a good man struggling with adversity; yet there is still a greater, which is the good man who comes to relieve it.

Men must turn square corners when they deal with the Government.

Is it right to shoot the poor prostitute or a woman who is unfaithful to her husband, or a man who loves another man?

We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it

When a man is old enough to do wrong he should be old enough to do right also.

The man with a clear conscience probably has a poor memory.

A man is sorry to be honest for nothing.

According to the state of a man's conscience, so do hope and fear on account of his deeds arise in his mind.

By unrighteousness man prospers, gains what appears desirable, conquer enemies, but perishes a the root.

The world is upheld by the veracity of good men: they make the earth wholesome.

A nice state of affairs when a man has to indulge his vices by proxy.

A man that will take back a move at Chess will pick a pocket

Party spirit enlists a man's virtues in the cause of his vices.

Correct morality can only be derived from what man is — not from what do-gooders and well-meaning aunt Nellies would like him to be.

All my fears and cares are of this world; if there is another, an honest man has nothing to fear from it.

A prince can mak a belted knight, A marquis, duke, and a' that; But an honest man's aboon his might: Guid faith, he maunna fa' that.

Property in man, always morally unjust, has become nationally dangerous.

A man is not moral because he is obedient through fear or ignorance. Morality lives in the realm of perceived obligation.