Quotes About Ethics

Man uses his intelligence less in the care of his own species than he does in his care of anything else he owns or governs.

Humanity is the virtue of a woman, generosity that of a man.

Richelieu was a great statesman, and like all great statesman, he was a very ruthless man. He's not cruel. He just does what he has to do. And in his own mind, he's absolutely right.

We can, following the exemple of Kant, consider the moral development and improvement of men, as the supreme goal of human evolution.

An honest man is strange when he is among dishonest men, but it is a good kind of strangeness.

Bullfights are hugely popular because you can sit comfortably with a hot dog and possibly watch a man die. It wont be me, but I can sit comfortably and watch it.

There are always reasons for murdering a man. But there is no justification for his existence.

Politics and the fate of mankind are formed by men without ideals and without greatness. Those who have greatness within them do not go in for politics.

In every guilty man, there is some innocence. This makes every absolute condemnation revolting.

The principle can be established that for a man who does not cheat what he believes to be true must determine his actions.

Check out not to become a man or woman of achievement, but instead seek to become a particular person of price.

Concern for man himself must always constitute the chief objective of all technological effort

To the truly ethical man, all of life is sacred, including forms of life that from the human point of view may seem lower than ours.

Every man is responsible only for his own acts. The sons do not inherit the sins of the fathers. But can we say: that was long ago, they were different?

There can be no profit in the making or selling of things to be destroyed in war. Men may think that they have such profit, but in the end the profit will turn out to be a loss.

Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow; The rest is all but leather and prunello.

Man is raw and wild, that is one of the reasons why he needs the Christian teaching.

Become corrupt, corrupt, and you will cease to suffer!" This has been the cry of all cities to man.

A great society is a society in which its men of business think greatly of their functions.

Bacon, Locke, Descartes, Hume, and all the others knew they were giving rights to vulgarity. But in so doing in addition to caring for man's well-being they were providing rights for themselves.

Well I just figure any man who risks his neck to save a dog's life isn't going to kill someone for gold teeth.

IMMORAL, adj. Inexpedient. Whatever in the long run and with regard to the greater number of instances men find to be generally inexpedient comes to be considered wrong, wicked, immoral.

Human beings have rights, because they are moral beings: the rights of all men grow out of their moral nature; and as all men have the same moral nature, they have the same rights.

The issue is privacy. Why is the decision by a woman to sleep with a man she has just met in a bar a private one, and the decision to sleep with the same man for $100 subject to criminal penalties?