Quotes About Ethics

A man's real belief is that which he lives by. What a man believes is the thing he does, not the thing he thinks.

You can do anything in the world if you say "Hey man, don't blame me, the devil made me do it. It's an easy way to escape responsibility."

The greatest test of a man's character is his tongue.

What a man does defiles him, not what is done by others.

All education is the art of making men ethical (sittlich), of transforming the old Adam into the new Adam.

The murder of a man is still murder, even in wartime.

The ultimate test of a man's conscience may be his willingness to sacrifice something today for future generations whose words of thanks will not be heard.

A grateful dog is better than an ungrateful man.

Our government... teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy.

In selecting men for office, let principle be your guide. Regard not the particular sect or denomination of the candidate-look to his character.

And seeing every man is presumed to do all things in order to his own benefit, no man is a fit Arbitrator in his own cause

A man, who can, in cold blood, hunt and torture a poor, innocent animal, cannot feel much compassion for the distress of his own species.

The clothes make the man. The children working in sweatshops make the clothes. Therefore, the children working in sweatshops make the man.

You might as well praise a man for not robbing a bank as to praise him for playing by the rules.

Man is not made better by being degraded.

No matter whether you claim a slave by purchase or capture, the title is bad. They who claim to own their fellow-men, look down into the pit and forget the justice that should rule the world.

The greatest possesion of man is character

Man's highest duty is to protect animals from cruelty.

Every man has his price, or a guy like me couldn't exist.

Anyone can be a barbarian; it requires a terrible effort to remain a civilized man.

To be a real man or woman, you've got to know what you believe in. You've got to understand that your actions have consequences and that they are connected to everything that you are.

Take from a man his reputation for probity, and the more shrewd and clever he is, the more hated and mistrusted he becomes.

Most men worry about their own bellies and other people's souls, when we all ought to be worried about our own souls and other people's bellies.

We say here that if you fall down in the United States, the ambulance man must feel for your wallet before he feels for your pulse.