Quotes About Ethics

The inclination to goodness is imprinted deeply in the nature of man.

The happiness and unhappiness of men depends as much on their ethics as on fortune.

For the credit of virtue we must admit that the greatest misfortunes of men are those into which they fall through their crimes.

However wicked men may be, they do not dare openly to appear the enemies of virtue, and when they desire to persecute her they either pretend to believe her false or attribute crimes to her.

The most ingenious men continually pretend to condemn tricking--but this is often done that they may use it more conveniently themselves, when some great occasion or interest offers itself to them.

Oh how unhappy is the prince served by such men who are so easily corrupted.

Donald Trump is not a very bright or nice man. Bad combination.

No man should have a political office because he wants a job.

Behavior is the perpetual revealing of us. What a man does, tells us what he is.

American labor rights activist, on activities of the National Farm Workers Association Human law may know no distinction among men in respect of rights, but human practice may.

Pharisaism is not a degeneration in a good man: a large portion of it is rather the condition of all being-good.

Moral sensibilities are nowadays at such cross-purposes that to one man a morality is proved by its utility, while to another its utility refutes it.

A man should not play the coward to his deeds. He should not repudiate them once he has performed them. Pangs of conscience are indecent.

Man must become better and more evil.

Without the errors involved in the assumptions of ethics, man would have remained an animal. Thus has he taken himself as something higher and imposed rigid laws upon himself.

In morality, man treats himself not as individuum but as dividuum.

Perhaps man will rise ever higher as soon as he ceases to flow out into a god.

An honest man you may form of windle-straws, but to make a rogue you must have grist.

Man has not the right to turn aside and heed not what is happening in the world around him, and this I maintain on moral grounds of the highest order.

Thus, as a result of heightened consciousness, a man feels as if it's all right if he's bad as long as he knows it- as though that were any consolation.

When . . . in the course of all these thousands of years has man ever acted in accordance with his own interests?

Gaylord (Perry) is a very honorable man. He only calls for the spitter when he needs it.

Do you want to live in a world where a man lies about calories?

I think I am a moral man.