Quotes About Ethics

The prudent man does himself good; the virtuous one does it to other men.

It is observed in the course of worldly things, that men's fortunes are oftener made by their tongues than by their virtues; and more men's fortunes overthrown thereby than by vices.

A man with a machine and inadequate culture is a pestilence.

In Europe public men do resign. But here it's a lost art. You have to impeach 'em.

In all things there must be order, but it must of such a kind as is possible to observe...to see a man burnt for doing as he thought right, harms the people, for this is a matter of conscience.

It is much easier to make good men wise, than to make bad men good.

To live without killing is a thought which could electrify the world, if men were only capable of staying awake long enough to let the idea soak in.

When we love animals and children too much, we love them at the expense of men.

No other virtue makes man more equal to the angels, than the imitation of their way of life.

To survive, men and business and corporations must serve.

Evil prospers when good men do nothing.

The honester the man, the worse luck.

Was ever any wicked man free from the stings of a guilty conscience?

To be upright and to have an imagination: that is enough to be a very good young man.

A tough fight against evil is the duty of good man.

It is much easier to ruin a man of principle than a man of none, for he may be ruined through his scruples. Knavery is supple and can bend; but honesty is firm and upright, and yields not.

When you borrow a man's car, always return it with a tank of gas.

If a man has no humaneness what can his propriety be like? If a man has no humaneness what can his happiness be like?

I do not see any reason why animals should be slaughtered to serve as human diet when there are so many substitutes. After all, man can live without meat.

Great abundance of riches cannot be gathered and kept by any man without sin.

I niver knew a pollytician to go wrong ontil he's been contaminated by contact with a business man.

Modern man has not only thrown away Christian theology, he has thrown away the possibility of what our forefathers had as a basis for morality and law.

Hell is paved with good intentions, not with bad ones. All men mean well.

The politician who steals is worse than a thief. He is a fool. With all the grand opportunities around for the man with a political pull, there's no excuse for stealin' a cent.