Quotes About Ethics

You can measure a man's worth by the breed of person he throws out of his office.

A man lusts to become a god... and there is murder. Murder upon murder upon murder. Why is the world of men nothing but murder?

I cannot conceive how any man can have brought himself to that pitch of presumption, to consider his country as nothing but carte blanche, upon which he may scribble whatever he pleases.

Good men make good rhinoceroses, unfortunately.

Vice goes along way towards making life bearable. A little vice now and then is relished by the best of men.

There is scarcely any man sufficiently clever to appreciate all the evil he does.

A fool has not stuff enough to make a good man.

It is safer to do most men harm than to do them too much good.

In the last analysis, even the best man is evil: in the last analysis, even the best woman is bad.

All preachers of morality, as also all theologians have a bad habit in common: all of them try to persuade man that he is very ill, and that a severe, final, radical cure is necessary.

The rights which a man arrogates to himself are relative to the duties which he sets himself, and to the tasks which he feels capable of performing.

The man who wears the yellow-dyed robe but is not free from stains himself, without self-restraint and integrity, is unworthy of the robe.

The man who can accept defeat and take his salary without feeling guilty is a thief.

To say on the authority of the Bible that God does a thing no honourable man would do, is to lie against God; to say that it is therefore right, is to lie against the very spirit of God.

Men are men, vows are words, and words are wind.

Man had freedom to choose the good, but this same freedom also allowed him to choose the bad. This is called moral freedom.

The only type of men Julia's mother had warned her about were wealthy industrialist who polluted the environment and took advantage of third-world countries. And Republilicans.

The laws of men are not infallible.

Moderation is represented as a virtue in order to restrain the ambition of great men, and to console those of a meaner condition in their lesser merit and fortune.

Great men's honor ought always to be measured by the methods they made use of in attaining it.

Not every great man is a grand human being.

Every one disguising the truth from a man who has a right to the truth is wrong, and ought not to be encouraged.

But, slavery is good for some people! ! ! As a good thing, slavery is strikingly peculiar, in this, that it is the only good thing which no man ever seeks the good of, for himself.

It is easiest to "be all things to all men," but it is not honest. Self-respect must be sacrificed every hour in the day.