Quotes About Ethics

The consistent thinker, the consistently moral man, is either a walking mummy or else, if he has not succeeded in stifling all his vitality, a fanatical monomaniac.

The precepts of the law may be comprehended under these three points: to live honestly, to hurt no man willfully, and to render every man his due carefully.

A good man may make the best even of poverty and disease, and the other ills of life; but he can only attain happiness under the opposite conditions

Where there is a choice of two evils, most men take both.

Nobody has ever given a reason why men should be their brother's keepers.

Christ . . . said that a man who had looked after a woman lustfully had sinned as much as the man who had seduced her. How absurd!

And Donald Trump? That man literally has people shouting the n word at his rallies and he doesn't address it, which is astounding to me. He's a terrible person.

New Rule: Someone has to tell Francesco Schettino that embracing a callous policy of "every man for himself" doesn't make you a sea captain. It makes you the Republican nominee.

No bad man can be a good poet.

The principle of recognition of evil under all its guises is at the basis of the true education of man.

Using a fetching face to make men do as you wish is no different from a man using muscle to force a woman to his will. Both are base, and both will fail a person as they age.

To mind your own business incorporates the whole duty of man.

Nothing in Man is either worse or better for being shared with the beasts.

A moderately bad man knows he is not very good: a thoroughly bad man thinks he is alright. This is common sense really. You understand sleep when you are awake, not well you are sleeping.

An orator is a good man who is skilled in speaking.

Character is tested by true sentiments more than by conduct. A man is seldom better than his word.

The men can have a moral compass that is just unshakeable, they can have ethics that run to the core.

I regard Duryodhana and his party as the baser impulses in man, and Arjuna and his party as the higher impulses.

It doesn't take much of a rule to measure a mean man.

When men are inhuman, take care not to feel towards them as they do towards other humans.

Stop talking about what the good man is like, and just be one.

No man is a Christian who cheats his fellows, perverts the truth, or speaks of a "clean bomb" yet he will be the first to make public his faith in God.

An evil deed is better left undone, for a man repents of it afterwards; a good deed is better done, for having done it, one does not repent.

In zoos, along with the animals, the humanity of man is also prisoned! No cage is humane!