Quotes About Ethics

Moral principles have lost their distinctiveness. For modern man, absolute right and absolute wrong are a matter of what the majority is doing.

The easiest way to destroy a man's faith is to destroy his morality.

Stealing is a lazy man's way. Something for nothing, leaves you hell to pay.

No man profiteth but by the loss of others.

Any man who doesn't believe in carrying weapons on a first date is not a man worth knowing.

You don't govern men who don't have religion, you shoot them.

Close your legs to married men.

If some beggar steals a bridle he'll be hung by a man who's stolen a horse. There's no surer justice in the world than that which makes the rich thief hang the poor one.

A man who permits his honor to be taken, permits his life to be taken.

The greatest penalty of evil-doing is to grow into the likeness of a bad man.

If you ask: What is the good of education? The answer is easy: Education makes good men and good men act nobly.

It is a very poor consolation to be told that the man who has given one a bad dinner, or poor wine, is irreproachable in private life. Even the cardinal virtues cannot atone for half-cold entrees.

There are two things civilized Man should never see being made: Sausages and Laws.

Men should not care too much for good looks; neglect is becoming.

Men wish to be saved from the mischiefs of their vices, but not from their vices.

How long before we have, not just homosexual marriage, but homosexual unions between adult men and small boys?

However toplofty and idealistic a man may be, he can always rationalize his right to earn money.

The fence and the boundary line are the symbols of the spirit of justice. They set the limits upon each man's interest to prevent one from taking advantage of the other.

It takes balls to execute an innocent man.

Animals are neither gods nor fiends, but men in their way without the lust and greed of man.

The measure of great men should always be measured by the means they have used to acquire it.

Those who follow the part of themselves which is great are great men; those who follow the part which is little are little men.

A man's moral worth is not measured by what his religious beliefs are but rather by what emotional impulses he has received from Nature during his lifetime.

All ethics so far evolved rest upon a single premise: that the individual is a member of a community of interdependent parts.