Quotes About Ethics

If men live decently it is because discipline saves their very lives for them.

The man realized that what counted was not where a person lived, but how a person lived.

Guide dogs for the blind. It's cruel really, isn't it? Getting a dog to lead a man round all day. Not fair on either of them.

Two things control man's character; Strength and Pity

The world has always been betrayed by decent men with bad ideals.

If a man does not have an ideal and try to live up to it, then he becomes a mean, base and sordid creature, no matter how successful.

A man's moral sense must be unusually strong if slavery does not make him a thief.

I am sure that, after all, any man in my place should set a positive example for other people.

Man is not born wicked; he becomes so, as he becomes sick.

I have seen men incapable of the sciences, but never any incapable of virtue.

Heaven made virtue; man, the appearance.

I insist that the object of all true education is not to make men carpenters, it is to make carpenters men.

A man cannot be a good doctor and keep telephoning his broker between patients nor a good lawyer with his eye on the ticker.

It would be an unspeakable advantage, both to the public and private, if men would consider that great truth, that no man is wise or safe but he that is honest.

Who so taketh in hand to frame any state or government ought to presuppose that all men are evil, and at occasions will show themselves so to be.

Modesty and diffidence make a man unfit for public affairs; they also make him unfit for brothels.

Let men be good, and the Government cannot be bad.

Don't judge a man's conscience by looking at his face cause he may have a bad heart.

It is criminal negligence to leave suckers lying around to tempt honest men.

The good opinion of our fellow men is the strongest, though not the purest motive to virtue.

He [man] knows that when he is not what he ought to be; when he does what he ought not to do; or omits what he ought to do, he is chargeable with sin

The Master said, "The gentleman understands what is right, whereas the petty man understands profit." (Analects 4.16)

Hurting a man in his dignity is a crime.

No man commits evil for the sake of it; even the Devil himself has some farther design in sinning, than barely the wicked part of it.