Quotes About Ethics

There's a lust in man, no charm can tame, of loudly publishing our neighbor's shame.

As ridiculous to approve of property and let a few men have a grossly unfair share of it, as say you are all for marriage, and then let one man have all the wives.

Never let a man imagine that he can pursue a good end by evil means, without sinning against his own soul. The evil effect on himself is certain.

There is a certain degree of temptation which will overcome any virtue. Now, in so far as you approach temptation to a man, you do him an injury; and, if he is overcome, you share his guilt.

Men err when they think they can be inhuman exploiters in their business life, and loving husbands and fathers at home.

Real hunger is when one man regards another man as something to eat.

Short-sighted men who in their greed and selfishness will, if permitted, rob our country of half its charm by their reckless extermination of all useful and beautiful wild things.

Men commit murder and all sorts of mayhem, in a few years they're back on the streets. Highway robbery and white collar crime, and they laugh at the system they beat.

Nations begin to dig their own graves when men talk more of human rights and less of human duties.

Be sure that religion cannot be right that a man is the worse for having.

What makes a good man?

A man is simple when his chief care is the wish to be what he ought to be, that is honestly and naturally human.

A man who makes trouble for others is also making trouble for himself.

The superior man is satisfied and composed; the mean man is always full of distress.

The superior man, extensively studying all learning, and keeping himself under the restraint of the rules of propriety, may thus likewise not overstep what is right.

The superior man cannot be known in little matters, but he may be entrusted with great concerns. The small man may not be entrusted with great concerns, but he may be known in little matters.

I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.

It seems to me like stealing, for men and women to live in the world and do nothing to make it better.

It is the nature of mortals to kick a fallen man.

Bullies, oppressors and all men who do violence to the rights of others are guilty not only of their own crimes, but also of the corruption they bring into the hearts of their victims.

No man is really honest; none of us is above the influence of gain.

Education and morals make the good man, the good statesman, the good ruler.

You don't mow another man's lawn!

I-man say don't make jah body a graveyard for de dead animals.