Quotes About Ethics

A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart.

The gentleman calls attention to the good points in others; he does not call attention to their defects. The small man does just the reverse of this.

...a man does not die for business, but for ideals.

Corrupt men are always liars. Lies are their instruments, their pleasure, their solace. In time they come to believe their lies, or rather to half-believe them.

Care should be taken that the punishment does not exceed the guilt; and also that some men do not suffer for offenses for which others are not even indicted.

How is it possible for those who are men of honor in their persons, thus to become notorious liars in their party

Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire.

Avoid, as you would the plague, a clergyman who is also a man of business.

A wrongdoer is often a man who has left something undone, not always one who has done something.

A good man knows when to sacrifice himself, a bad man survives but loses his soul.

Man was appointed by God to have dominion over the beasts, and everything a man does to an animal is either a lawful exercise or a sacrilegious abuse of an authority by divine right.

What is the world coming to when you get a red card and get fined two weeks' wages for calling a grown man a wanker?

States are doomed when they are unable to distinguish good men from bad.

I would give no thought of what the world might say of me, if I could only transmit to posterity the reputation of an honest man.

Riches are a cause of evil, not because, of themselves, they do any evil, but because they goad men on to evil.

Men fall in private long before they fall in public.

It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.

A man can do what he ought to do; and when he says he cannot, it is because he will not.

Oh, it's always the same,' she sighed, 'if you want men to behave well to you, you must be beastly to them; if you treat them decently they make you suffer for it.

The punishment of criminals should be of use; when a man is hanged he is good for nothing.

The virtuous man is driven by responsibility, the non-virtuous man is driven by profit.

Ethical man: A Christian holding four aces.

Men like Hitler and Stalin and their immediate lieutenants cannot plead in defence of their actions that these were justified by the accepted values of that time.

I think a man becomes less than a man when he begins to compromise on what he believes is right.