Quotes About Ethics

I never killed a man I didn't have to.

Any man who'd make an X-rated movie ought to have to take his daughter to see it.

There are men who strike at liberty under the term licentiousness

Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, the post of honoris a private station.

If ridicule were employed to laugh men out of vice and folly, it might be of some use.

Garments that have once one rent in them are subject to be torn on every nail, and glasses that are once cracked are soon broken; such is man's good name once tainted with just reproach.

The man who has never been tempted doesn't know how dishonest he is.

To eat off another man's plate. [To live an another's expense.]

A brave and passionate man will kill or be killed. A brave and calm man will always preserve life. Of these two which is good and which is harmful?

If a man has a right to be proud of anything, it is of a good action done as it ought to be, without any base interest lurking at the bottom of it.

In days gone by, a man's word was his bond. Today, fortunately, we have glue.

A republic cannot succeed, till it contains a certain body of men imbued with the principles of justice and honour.

The Christian in me says it's wrong, but the corrections officer in me says, 'I love to make a grown man piss himself.'

Illustrious man! deriving honor less from the splendor of his situation than from the dignity of his mind.

I never killed a man who didn't need it.

I have a conscience, man, and I've worked really hard to keep it where you would feel like you were talking to the same man at one of my shows or sitting down at my dinner table.

A man may not transgress the bounds of major morals, but may make errors in minor morals.

The proper man understands equity, the small man profits.

That a man lives is because he is straight. That a man who dupes others survives is because he has been fortunate enough to be spared.

The superior man limits his achievements.

A good man does not make a warrior, just as good steel does not go for nails.

May none but honest and wise men ever rule under this roof.

This man, although he may not actually have committed the crime attributed to him, is nevertheless morally culpable, because he is the enemy of our existing institutions

Martyrs have been sincere. And so have tyrants. Wise men have been sincere. And so have fools.