Quotes About Ethics

Why do there have to be men like that, men who enjoy another man's dying?

In plain truth, lying is an accursed vice. We are not men, nor have any other tie upon another, but by our word.

What a terrible thing to be a great lord, yet a wicked man.

Man is the being who, from cradle to grave has to abide by either his man-made laws or heavenly law.

A gentleman is one who is too brave to lie, too generous to cheat, and who takes his share othe world and lets other people have theirs.

What evil is there in seeing a man possess a woman? Why, the beasts would be more free than we!

The seriousness of ecological degradation lays bare the depth of man's moral crisis... Simplicity, moderation, and discipline as well as the spirit of sacrifice must become a part of everyday life.

I didn't want to kill a man. I'm not capable of killing a man. I wanted to kill a tyrant.

As long as a man does not sin, he is feared. As soon as he sins, he himself is in fear.

The concept of individual with a conscience is one whose highest allegiance is to his fellow man.

Any extraordinary degree of beauty in man or woman involves a moral charm.

In terms of morals there is no such thing as 'state.' Just men. Individuals. Each responsible for his own acts.

Most people can bear adversity. But if you wish to know what a man really is, give him power.

The history of the world shows that when a mean thing was done, man did it; when a good thing was done, man did it.

The great difficulty about keeping the Ten Commandments is that no man can keep them and be a gentleman.

Law never made men a whit more just; and, by means of their respect for it, even the well-disposed are daily made the agents of injustice.

I describe not men, but manners; not an individual, but a species.

To God all things are fair and good and right, but men hold some things wrong and some right.

None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.

All knowledge attains its ethical value and its human significance only by the human sense with which it is employed. Only a good man can be a great physician.

The more illegal a profit, the more tenaciously a man clings to it.

One may take many liberties with God which one cannot take with men.

The best of men are men at best

Science brings to the light of day everything man had believed sacred. Technique takes possession of it and enslaves it.