Quotes About Ethics

But the question is, whether the animals who endure such sufferings of various kinds for the service and entertainment of man, would accept existence upon the terms on which they have it.

Man arose to high moral vision two thousand years before the Hebrew nation was born.

I am careful about my conduct because I know this cause requires clean men.

The most reasonable man always manages, when he pulls the trigger, to become a dispenser of justice.

That was the tragedy. Not that one man had the courage to be evil. But that millions had not the courage to be good.

Matters change and morals change; men remain.

At what point does a man turn into a monster? I don't believe that it's when he does horrible things, but when he accepts that he's able to do them, and that he does them well.

To give a man full knowledge of morality, I would send him to no other book than the New Testament.

All men are moral. Only their neighbors are not.

You know, I've never killed a man before. I mean I droped bombs on the enemy from the above, but never face to face. [thinking pause] I don't see what the big deal is - I really don't.

A man is no better than he has to be.

Let no man break the laws of the land, for he that keepeth the laws of God hath no need to break the laws of the land.

When a man makes up his mind to become a rascal, he should examine himself closely and see if he isn't better constructed for a fool.

It strikes me as weird that a 25 year old man would even find a 16 year old attractive.

Bad men hate sin through fear of punishment; good men hate sin through their love of virtue.

There's nothing better than striving to be a better man.

The motions of men must be such as suggest their dignity or their baseness.

Mitt Romney, maybe the most moral and decent man who's ever run for president, ended up being a murderer, somebody who didn't care about animals, and a tax cheat.

I have the greatest aversion to being a candidate on a ticket with a man whose record as an upright public man is to be in question--to be defended from the beginning to the end.

It is not the being seen of men that is wrong, but doing these things for the purpose of being seen of men. The problem with the hypocrite is his motivation.

There is a sense of decency that's like a barometer to a man's or a country's health.

Good and bad men are each less so than they seem.

Human values should predominate in men's thoughts. Human life has no meaning without these values.

For often evil men are rich, and good men poor; But we will not exchange with them Our virtue for their wealth since one abides always, While riches change their owners every day.