Quotes About Ethics

The man without religion is as a ship without a rudder.

When men start talking about 'honor', there is sure to be trouble ahead.

The majority of men are more capable of great actions than of good ones.

It just takes a pebble to bring down a good man.

A good man should and must Sit rather down with loss than rise unjust.

He that steals the old man's supper does him no wrong.

That man alone loves himself rightly who procures the greatest possible good to himself through the whole of his existence and so pursues pleasure as not to give for it more than it is worth.

Men's minds do not die with their bodies but are made more happy or miserable after this life according to their actions.

In a discreet man's mouth, a public thing is private.

And whether you're an honest man, or whether you're a thief, depends on whose solicitor has given me my brief.

If men would only take the chances of doing right because it is right, instead of the immediate certainty of the advantage of doing wrong, how much happier would their lives be.

Good men study to spiritualize their bodies; bad men to incarnate their souls.

No man doth think others will be better to him than he is to them.

Man can be scientifically manipulated.

No man who believes that all is for the best in this suffering world can keep his ethical values unimpaired, since he is always having to find excuses for pain and misery.

Unfortunately, however, power is sweet, and the man who in the beginning seeks power merely in order to have scope for his benevolence is likely, before long, to love the power for its own sake.

Men have discovered other philosophical and ethical systems, but they have not found another Jesus Christ. No one in history can match Him.

Thought makes the whole dignity of man; therefore endeavor to think well, that is the only morality.

Man's true nature being lost, everything becomes his nature; as, his true good being lost, everything becomes his good.

It is not shameful for a man to succumb to pain and it is shameful to succumb to pleasure.

It is not permitted to the most equitable of men to be a judge in his own cause.

The philosophers talk to you about the dignity of man, and they tempt you to pride, or they talk to you about the misery of man, and they tempt you to despair.

Equality of possessions is no doubt right, but, as men could not make might obey right, they have made right obey might.

Stay free of petty jealousies, live by no man's code, and hold your judgment for yourself, lest you wind up on this road.