Quotes About Ethics

One man's opportunism is another man's statesmanship.

Let men not ask what the law requires, but give whatever freedom demands.

The man who always takes and never gives is not a leader. He is a parasite.

I think a man can have two, maybe three, affairs while he is married. But three is the absolute maximum. After that, you're cheating.

The Bible must be considered as the great source of all the truth by which men are to be guided in government as well as in all social transactions.

So easily do weak men put in high positions turn villains.

When a man is getting better he understands more and more clearly the evil that is still left in him. When a man is getting worse he understands his own badness less and less.

The world has no idea how much it owes to the presence of righteous men in it.

Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense.

A good man will avoid the spot of any sin. The very aspersion is grievous, which makes him choose his way in his life, as he would in his journey.

It almost seems to me that man was not born to be a carnivore.

The worst day in a man's life is when he sits down and begins thinking about how he can get something for nothing.

As soon as men decide that all means are permitted to fight an evil, then their good becomes indistinguishable from the evil that they set out to destroy.

Morality, like numinous awe, is a jump; in it, man goes beyond anything that can be 'given' in the facts of experience.

If a man teach uprightly and walk crookedly, more will fall down in the night of his life than he built in the day of his doctrine.

The cheapness of man is every day's tragedy.

The holy man, though he be distressed, does not eat food mixed with wickedness. The lion, though hungry, will not eat what is unclean.

Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.

One said a tooth drawer was a kind of unconscionable trade, because his trade was nothing else but to take away those things whereby every man gets his living.

An honest man always values earning honor over wealth.

A poet can write about a man slaying a dragon, but not about a man pushing a button that releases a bomb.

A man who is more concerned with being a good man than being good at being a man makes a very well-behaved slave.

I hold the precepts of Jesus as delivered by Himself, to be the most pure, benevolent and sublime which have ever been preached to man.

Man's laws cannot make moral what God has declared immoral