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Quotes About Ethics

You can crush a man with journalism.
~ William Randolph Hearst
The man who deceives shows more justice than he who does not
~ Gorgias
The man who would choose security over freedom deserves neither.
~ Thomas Jefferson
We live in a world of guided missiles and misguided men.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
A honest man is seldom a vagrant.
~ Cato the Younger
If a man, for private profit, tears at the public news, does so with the impatience of one who thinks he actually owns the news you get, it is against the national interest.
~ Jimmy Breslin
There is no fundamental difference between man and animals in their ability to feel pleasure and pain, happiness, and misery.
~ Charles Darwin
It was with a homosexual, I was barely 14 years old. But let's be fair, I wasn't the only one who did it. He was a man in Bauru that all our team visited.
~ Pele
It is indeed probable that more harm and misery have been caused by men determined to use coercion to stamp out a moral evil than by men intent on doing evil.
~ Friedrich August von Hayek
The whole world is run on bluff. No race, no nation, no man has any divine right to take advantage of others. Why allow the other fellow to bluff you?
~ Marcus Garvey
The fate of animals is of greater importance to me than the fear of appearing ridiculous; it is indissolubly connected with the fate of men.
~ Émile Zola
Justice means minding one's own business and not meddling with other men's concerns.
~ Plato
Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
~ Ben Jonson
No man chooses evil because it's evil. He only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.
~ Mary Wollstonecraft
If you are suffering from a bad man's injustice, forgive him lest there be two bad men.
~ Saint Augustine
Gather the five virtues (Dignity, Confidence, Courage, Compassion, and Faith). Then you are a man.
~ Kofi Annan
A good shot must necessarily be a good man since the essence of good marksmanship is self-control and self-control is the essential quality of a good man.
~ Theodore Roosevelt
The universe is not rich enough to buy the vote of an honest man.
~ Pope Gregory I
If a man has knocked out the teeth of a man of the same rank, his own teeth shall be knocked out.
~ Hammurabi
The public cannot be too curious concerning the characters of public men.
~ Samuel Adams
For there is no defense for a man who, in the excess of his wealth, has kicked the great altar of Justice out of sight.
~ Aeschylus
A man who has no conscience, no goodness, does not suffer.
~ Khaled Hosseini
No man should advocate a course in private that he's ashamed to admit in public.
~ George McGovern
When I hear that a man is religious, I conclude he is a rascal!
~ David Hume