Quotes About Ethics

A man should practice what he preaches, but a man should also preach what he practices.

Can any man or woman choose duties? No more than they can choose their birthplace or their father and mother.

I'm a good woman for a bad man.

It might be pardonable to refuse to defend some men, but to defend them negligently is nothing short of criminal.

Man is the most dangerous, destructive, selfish, and unethical animal on earth.

A Man Without Honor is Worse than Dead.

Men generally decide upon a middle course, which is most hazardous, for they know neither how to be entirely good nor entirely bad.

As honest as you could expect a man to be in a world where it's out of style.

Men rarely if ever dream up a god superior to themselves. Most gods have the manners and morals of a spoiled child.

As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man.

Not always actions show the man; we find who does a kindness is not therefore kind.

It is the mark of the cultured man that he is aware of the fact that equality is an ethical and not a biological principle

A good man, is a good man, whether in this church, or out of it.

Friendship with a man is friendship with his virtue, and does not admit of assumptions of superiority.

Rest assured that there is nothing which wounds the heart of a noble man more deeply than the thought his honour is assailed.

If a man be endowed with a generous mind, this is the best kind of nobility.

Civilization is not by means an easy thing to attain to. There are only two ways by which man can reach it. One is by being cultured, the other by being corrupt.

Sometimes the Bible in the hands of one man is worse than a whiskey bottle in the hands of another.

A good woman is known by what she does; a good man by what he doesn't.

Conscience in the soul is the root of all true courage. If a man would be brave, let him learn to obey his conscience.

Kill one man and you're a murderer, kill a million and you're a conqueror.

One kills a man, one is an assassin; one kills millions, one is a conqueror; one kills everybody, one is a god.

You can't measure what's inside a man's heart.

Most Men are Cowards, all Men should be Knaves. The Difference lies, as far as I can see, Not in the thing it self, but the Degree.