Quotes About Ethics

I regard that man as lost, who has lost his sense of shame.

Men become old, but they never become good.

The true test of civilization is not the census, nor the size of cities, nor the crops - no, but the kind of man the country turns out.

Many evil men are rich, and good men poor, but we shall not exchange with them our excellence for riches.

On every dishonest man, there are two watchmen, his possessions, and his way of living.

Goodness does not more certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good.

The only guide to man is his conscience.

The great man is sparing in words but prodigal in deeds.

Bertrand Russell would not have wished to be called a saint of any description; but he was a great and good man.

If all men were just there would be no need of valor.

Man's ethics must not end with man, but should extend to the universe. He must regain the consciousness of the great Chain of Life from which he cannot be separated.

Slowly and painfully man is learning that he must do unto others what he would have them do to him.

Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses and avoids.

An honest man is one who knows that he can't consume more than he has produced.

An honorable man will not be bullied by a hypothesis.

The man who votes for the saloon is pulling on the same rope with the devil, whether he knows it or not.

Never touch another man's button.

Remember: sin, even if legalized by man, is still sin in the eyes of God.

If a white man had land, and some one should swindle him, that man would try to get it back, and you would not blame him.

I do not believe Tony Blair was a fundamentally good man who went bad. I believe he was evil in the first place.

Why should a Man be Moral? Because this strengthens his will.

Fairly examined, truly understood, No man is wholly bad, nor wholly good.

The man of life upright has a guiltless heart, free from all dishonest deeds or thought of vanity.

Questions of natural right are triable by their conformity with the moral sense and reason of man.