Quotes About Ethics

It is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer.

Some of the finest moral intuitions come to quite humble people. The visiting of lofty ideas doesn't depend on formal schooling. Think of those Galilean peasants.

Every human being has, like Socrates, an attendant spirit; and wise are they who obey its signals. If it does not always tell us what to do, it always cautions us what not to do.

Every time I've done something that doesn't feel right, it's ended up not being right.

A man who could make so vile a pun would not scruple to pick a pocket.

To undo a Jew is charity, and not sin.

Every newspaper editor owes tribute to the devil.

It is better that a judge should lean on the side of compassion than severity.

The strictest justice is sometimes the greatest injustice.

Thwackum was for doing justice, and leaving mercy to heaven.

I always felt from the beginning that you had to defend people you disliked and feared as well as those you admired.

Nobody is poor unless he stand in need of justice.

There is no such thing as justice - in or out of court.

Justice is too good for some people, and not good enough for the rest.

Acquittal of the guilty damns the judge.

There is no virtue so truly great and godlike as justice.

Render therefore to all their dues.

Thrice is he arm'd that hath his quarrel just, And he but naked, though lock'd up in steel, Whose conscience with injustice is corrupted.

Let justice be done, though the heavens fall.

Far more has been accomplished for the welfare and progress of mankind by preventing bad actions than by doing good ones.

Show me the man and I'll show you the law.

Litigant: a person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his bone.

Lawyers and painters can soon change white to black.

No man is above the law and no man is below it: nor do we ask any man's permission when we ask him to obey it.