Quotes About Ethics

Every man's conscience is vile and depraved / You cannot depend on it to be your guide when it's you who must keep it satisfied.

Good men don't become legends," he said quietly. "Good men don't need to become legends." She opened her eyes, looking up at him. "They just do what's right anyway.

You cannot tempt the hearts of men who are pure.

Besides reasoning about matters of fact, men also make moral judgements.

If we continue to make moral judgements (and whatever we say shall in fact continue) then we must believe that the conscience of man is not a product of nature.

Morality or duty never yet made a man happy in himself or dear to others.

All men alike stand condemned, not by alien codes of ethics, but by their own, and all men therefore are conscious of guilt.

You would not call a man humane for ceasing to set mousetraps if he did so because he believed there were no mice in the house.

Hitler is a medicine man type of leader.

Apparently it was unethical for lawyers to sleep with their clients. This from a man who offered legal representation to assassins.

Are you, monsieur, a man of your word?" "It really depends upon the word," Magnus said. "There are so many wonderful words.

He who befriends a man whose conduct is vicious, whose vision impure, and who is notoriously crooked, is rapidly ruined.

Vice has more martyrs than virtue; and it often happens that men suffer more to be lost than to be saved.

An honest man will continue to be so though surrounded on all sides by rogues.

A man ain't got no right to be a public man, unless he meets the public views.

It is absurd to suppose, if this is God's world, that men must always be selfish barbarians.

The man who fails to give fair service during the hours for which he is paid is dishonest. The man who is not willing to give more than this is foolish.

No man has a right to do as he pleases, except when he pleases to do right.

Thats what abortion is - killing innocent humans for money. Abortionists are government licensed hit men.

The business man who gains success at the expense of the poor and miserable gains nil respect from his peers.

No man ever flees from duty without incalculable hurt, not only to himself, but to others as well.

Disregarding the fact that I am old enough to be [Walter] Schellenberg's mother, I would feel nauseated to be coupled with a man whose ideology has debased our hearts.

Every man with his own peculiar vice. His will hardly rock heaven or hell.

The demands that a great man makes are on himself; those of a petty man are upon others.