Quotes About Ethics

A man has a right to think lots of things he has no right to say.

Men are virtuous because women are; women are virtuous from necessity.

Not men but measures a sort of charm by which many people get loose from every honorable engagement.

I don't want to go down in history as a man who allowed blood to be shed...

I do not believe in personal immortality; it seems so unnecessary. Show me one man who deserves to live forever.

In vain we build the city if we do not first build the man.

The people I have no feeling for are professional killers. But I count that man no worse than a governor who won't commute a death sentence because it's unpolitical.

Being your own man does not mean taking advantage of anyone else.

Newspaper men, perhaps more than any other class, are rated by ability.

In every ascetic morality man worships a part of himself as God and for that he needs to diabolize the other part.

If a man does what is good, let him do it again; let him delight in it; happiness is the outcome of good.

Bad men do what good men only dream.

Men are not governed by justice, but by law or persuasion. When they refuse to be governed by law or persuasion, they have to be governed by force or fraud, or both.

There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it.

There are no perfectly honorable men; but every true man has one main point of honor and a few minor ones.

For a good man fame is always a problem.

Men and times change-but principles-never.

Man's conscience is the oracle of God.

It is hard to say which is the greatest fool: he who tells the whole truth, or he who tells no truth at all. Character is as necessary in business as in trade. No man can deceive often in either.

Man is oftentimes weak-minded enough to be caught in the snare of greed and honeyed words.

I should wish to die if a man who is impure should parade his purity in front of me.

Man's shortcomings and sins are all due to the substance of the body and not to its form; while all his merits are exclusively due to his form.

The kind of man who can be pro-choice about your baby could also be pro-choice about you.

What is the chief end of man?-to get rich. In what way?-dishonestly if we can; honestly if we must.