Quotes About Ethics

Profane swearing never did any man any good. No man in the richer or wiser or happier for it.

No man's religion ever survives his morals.

If survival calls for the bearing of arms, bear them you must. But the most important part of the challenge is for you to find another means that does not come with the killing of your fellow man.

The common people do not judge of vice or virtue by morality or immorality, so much as by the stamp that is set upon it by men of figure.

I don't owe one man one cent. Anywhere.

The extent of one man's guilt may be defined by how much of it is experienced by the party he injured.

Considering how bad men are, it is wonderful how well they behave.

Absolute virtue is as sure to kill a man as absolute vice is, let alone the dullness of it and the pomposities of it.

Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty, bodily or mental.

It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives.

No man can fall into contempt but those who deserve it.

Sir, I do not call a gamester a dishonest man; but I call him an unsociable man, an unprofitable man. Gaming is a mode of transferring property without producing any intermediate good.

Rakes are more suspicious than honest men.

Commonplace though it may appear, this doing of one's duty embodies the highest ideal of life and character. There may be nothing heroic about it; but the common lot of men is not heroic.

If a man is not rising upward to be an angel, depend on it, he is sinking downward to be a devil.

It is a world not of angels but of angles, where men speak of moral principles but act on power principles; a world where we are always moral and our enemies always immoral.

Four things does a reckless man gain who covets his neighbor's wife - demerit, an uncomfortable bed, thirdly, punishment, and lastly, hell.

As a man, I've been representative of the values I hold dear. And the values I hold dear are carryovers from the lives of my parents.

As soon as men know that they can kill without fear of punishment or blame, they kill; or at least they encourage killers with approving smiles.

Living or dead, to a good man there can come no evil.

Men keep agreements when it is to the advantage of neither to break them.

Let a man nobly live or nobly die.

The man the state has put in place must have obedient hearing to his least command when it is right, and even when it's not.

He might be a man without character, but she was a woman without courage. Of the two, which was worse?