Quotes About Ethics

No man has a natural right to commit aggression on the equal rights of another; and this is all from which the laws ought to restrain him.

A hungry man can't see right or wrong. He just sees food.

I've handled colour as a man should behave. You may conclude that I consider ethics and aesthetics as one.

Many a thief is a better man than many a clergyman, and miles nearer to the gate of the kingdom.

I find it easy to forgive the man who invented a devilish instrument like dynamite, but how can one ever forgive the diabolical mind that invented the Nobel Prize in Literature?

Earth produces nothing worse than an ungrateful man.

Anyone who can appease a man's conscience can take his freedom away from him.

No man can break any of the Ten Commandments. He can only break himself against them.

Believe in no other God than the one who insists on justice and equality among men.

Oh, what a wicked world it is that drives a man to sin.

Left to himself, man is half beast and half devil.

Good men are bound by conscience and liberated by accountability.

The life of every citizen is becoming a business. This, it seems to me, is one of the worst interpretations of the meaning of human life history has ever seen. Man's life is not a business.

What a singular fact for an angel visitant to this earth to carry back in his note-book, that men were forbidden to expose their bodies under the severest penalties!

Kill one man, and you are murderer.

The most dangerous criminal may be the man gifted with reason, but with no morals.

Kill one man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill them all, and you are a god.

A great cause of evil in the world is that men seldom think themselves criminal if they offer the same injustice to others that has been successfully practiced on themselves.

The line, often adopted by strong men in controversy, of justifying the means by the end.

The Great Spirit is angry with all men that tell lies.

If we do not want to be pained by anybody we must not pain anybody; and how can man consider himself humane if he wants to live at the cost of others.

The difference there is betwixt honor and honesty seems to be chiefly the motive; the mere honest man does that from duty which the man of honor does for the sake of character.

A man should be free to do what he wants to do, as long as it doesn't hurt others.

By reason of gifts and bribes the offices be given to rich men, which should rather have been executed by wise men.