Quotes About Ethics

...for all men do their acts with a view to achieving something which is, in their view, a good.

I am not morally obligated to care more for a man than he cares for himself.

Morality is a code of black and white. When and if men attempt a compromise, it is obvious which side will necessarily lose and which will necessarily profit.

Let me give you a tip on a clue to men's characters: the man who damns money has obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it has earned it.

Is man an ape or an angel? Now I am on the side of the angels.

Boys and young men acquire readily the moral sentiments of their social milieu, whatever these sentiments may be.

Man is neither angel nor beast.

Men rarely see their own actions as unjustified.

I'm a law-abiding man. That is, if there's any law to abide by.

In my opinion, any man who can afford to buy a newspaper should not be allowed to own one.

While the best men are guided by love, most mean are still goaded by fear.

The wise man applauds he who he thinks most virtuous; the rest of the world applauds the wealthy.

What a vile and abject thing is man if he do not raise himself above humanity.

Men's language is as their lives.

No honest man will argue on every side

When men no longer have the least fear of saying something untrue, they very soon have no fear whatsoever of doing something unjust.

No man in the world acts up to his own standard of right.

Indifference to fate which, though it often makes a villain of a man, is the basis of his sublimity when it does not.

An equal application of law to every condition of man is fundamental.

Progress is a farce because man's head and hand have created wonders that stun the imagination, but his heart does not keep step and his morals undo all that his mind has wrought.

It is impossible to find twelve fair men in all the world.

Hemingway shot himself. I don't like a man that takes the short way home.

As with the acquisition, so with the use of money; they way in which a man spends it is often one of the surest tests of character.

Truly, I would not hang a dog by my will, much more a man who hath any honesty in him.