Quotes About Ethics

You cannot make men good by law.

The true grandeur of humanity is in moral elevation, sustained, enlightened and decorated by the intellect of man

I've arrived at the age where a platonic friendship can be sustained on the highest moral plane.

One good man, one good man, it ain't much - it's only everything.

The man who has received a benefit ought always to remember it, but he who has granted it ought to forget the fact at once.

Being asked where in Greece he saw good men, he replied, "Good men nowhere, but good boys at Sparta."

A man's grammar, like Caesar's wife, must not only be pure, but above suspicion of impurity.

If we only elected good men, we'd never have leaders.

Only the just man enjoys peace of mind.

If a superior give any order to one who is under him which is against that man's conscience, although he do not obey it yet he shall not be dismissed.

Men frequently do good only to give themselves opportunity of doing ill with impunity.

Every man has his price. This is not true. But for every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing.

The most unequivocal sign of contempt for man is to regard everybody merely as a means to one's own ends, or of no account whatever.

Every man wants a woman to appeal to his better side, his nobler instincts, and his higher nature - and another woman to help him forget them.

Every man who has ever been earnest to preserve his higher or poetic faculties in the best condition, has been particularly inclined to abstain from animal food

The man who does evil to another does evil to himself, and the evil counsel is most evil for him who counsels it.

I guess under the right circumstances, a man will do just about anything.

Between the murder of an animal and the murder of a man, there's no more than ONE step!

Begin with duties of a man and rights will follow as spring follows winter

You cannot disgrace a disgraceful man; you cannot make a shameless man feel ashamed; you cannot make a cockroach a cockroach, because it is already a cockroach!

There is no man so good, who, were he to submit all his thoughts and actions to the laws, would not deserve hanging ten times in his life.

And who is so barbarous as not to understand that the foot of a man is nobler than his shoe, and his skin nobler than that of the sheep with which he is clothed.

One has got to choose between the two evils, also between the lesser of the two evils in the matter of food, and therefore vegetarian food has got to be taken by man in order to sustain human life.

How long do you want these messages to remain secret?[...] +I want them to remain secret for as long as men are capable of evil.