Quotes About Ethics

It's hard to resist a bad boy who's a good man.

A man's got to have a code, a creed to live by, no matter his job.

A man of personality can formulate ideals, but only a man of character can achieve them.

Nothing should be made by man's labour which is not worth making, or which must be made by labour degrading to the makers.

A man must commit a crime at least once in his life-time. Only then will his virtue be recognized

There is no better test of a man's integrity than his behavior when he is wrong.

From the very depth of my being, I challenge the right of any man or any group of men, in business or in government, to tell a fellow human being that he or she is expendable.

Conscience. Conscience is the ultimate measure of a man.

At the core of all successful societies are procedures for blocking the advancement of bad men

There are no perfect men in this world, only perfect intentions.

Unfortunately, goodness and honor are rather the exception than the rule among exceptional men, not to speak of geniuses

It is impossible that a man who is false to his friends and neighbours should be true to the public.

I am a bad, wicked man, but I am practicing moral self-purification; I don't eat meat any more, I now eat rice cutlets.

No man who is corrupt, no man who condones corruption in others, can possibly do his duty by the community.

Whether the man is an atheist or a Christian, I would judge him by his fruits, and I have therefore many agnostic friends.

Killing a man should be harder than waving a length of pipe in their direction. It should take long enough for one's conscience to get in the way.

Force always attracts men of low morality, and I believe it to be an invariable rule that tyrants of genius are succeeded by scoundrels.

Force always attracts men of low morality.

Nature knows no indecencies; man invents them.

Believe me, religions are on the wrong track the moment they moralize and fulminate commandments. God is not needed to create guilt or to punish. Our fellow men suffice, aided by ourselves.

Even great men can be corrupted

If you ain't thinkin about man and God and law, then you ain't thinkin about nothin'.

Base men who prosper are unenviable.

I believe the measure of a man isn't just the road he's traveled; it's the choices he's made along the way.