Quotes About Ethics

The most miserable man or woman is the one who knows what is right and does not do it.

Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will.

What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?

When you see stuff that's wrong... it's just wrong, man. You gotta point that out.

If worthless men are sometimes at the head of affairs, it is, I believe, because worthless men are at the tail and the middle

The secret thoughts of a man run over all things, holy, profane, clean, obscene, grave, and light, without shame or blame.

As we keep or break the Sabbath Day we nobly save or meanly lose the last best hope by which man rises.

Man is born with uprightness. If one loses it, he will be lucky if he escapes with his life.

Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

The greatest king of Israel, King David, the author of the Psalms, sent a man out to die in battle so that he could sleep with his wife.

I never thrust my nose into other men's porridge. It is no bread and butter of mine; every man for himself, and God for us all.

Ken Lay has, does and will continue to accept responsibility for the fall of Enron. He was the man at the controls. But failure is not a crime.

I am unable to understand how a man of honor could take a newspaper in his hands without a shudder of disgust.

Character is more than a man-to-his-God humility, for it involves transparency and accountability to others, not merely a private quest for purity.

Never has a man who has bent himself been able to make others straight.

Nothing can resist the will of man when he knows what is true and wills what is good.

Men's consciences ought in no sort to be violated, urged, or constrained.

Burn not thy fingers to snuff another man's candle.

All men are naturally included to obscure the morally ambiguous element in their political cause by investing it with religious sanctity.

When a man lies he murders some part of the world. These are the pale deaths men miscall their lives.

The daughter-in-law of Pythagoras said that a woman who goes to bed with a man ought to lay aside her modesty with her skirt, and put it on again with her petticoat

Good moral character is the first essential in a man.

A wise man has dignity without pride; a fool has pride without dignity.

I will never be able to go back to Sweden without knowing inside myself that I'd done all a man could do to save as many Jews as possible