Quotes About Ethics

A Gentleman is a man who will pay his gambling debts even when he knows he has been cheated.

The cunning man steals a horse, the wise man lets him alone.

The average man will bristle if you say his father was dishonest, but he will brag a little if he discovers that his great-grandfather was a Pirate.

We make men without chests and expect from them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst.

Isn't it better to have men being ungrateful than to miss a chance to do good?

A real man is he whose goodness is a part of himself.

Even nowadays a man can't step up and kill a woman without feeling just a bit unchivalrous.

Nobility is defined by the demands it makes on us - by obligations, not by rights. Noblesse oblige. 'To live as one likes is plebeian; the noble man aspires to order and law.'

Everyone asks if a man is rich, no one if he is good.

Justice is the great interest of man on earth.

Every man is free to do that which he wills, provided he infringes not the equal freedom of any other man.

What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man.

When the passage "All men are born free and equal," when that passage was being written were not some of the signers legalised owners of slaves?

As often as Herman had witnessed the slaughter of animals and fish, he always had the same thought: in their behavior toward creatures, all men were Nazis.

Vice and virtue chiefly imply the relation of our actions to men in this world; sin and holiness rather imply their relation to God and the other world.

Every man should be considered as having a right to the character which he deserves; that is, to be spoken of according to his actions.

Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to preserve it. Has it ever been said that a man who throws himself out the window to escape from a fire is guilty of suicide?

Is man a savage at heart, skinned o'er with fragile Manners? Or is savagery but a faint taint in the natural man's gentility, which erupts now and again like pimples on an angel's arse?

Men of most renowned virtue have sometimes by transgressing most truly kept the law.

The moral influence of woman over man is almost always salutary.

I desire to assist in attracting to this profession young men of character and ability, also to help those already engaged in the profession to acquire the highest moral and intellectual training

No wicked man knows happiness, and least of all the seducer of others.

All business depends upon men fulfilling their responsibilities.

Let each man have according to his deserts.