Quotes About Ethics

But I wonder where we will land if trial judges begin deciding that the fact that a man has committed an atrocious crime is proof sufficient that he is not responsible for his acts.

It is very significant that some of the most thoughtful and cultured men are partisans of a pure vegetable diet

Scientific man is already on the moon, and yet we are still living with the moral concepts of Homer.

Every man's occupation should be beneficial to his fellow-man as well as profitable to himself. All else is vanity and folly.

When men don't fear god, they give themselves to evil

If you do not believe that a man will commit murder for one can of tomatoes, then you have never been hungry.

Take a picture not a trophy This is how real men shoot animals

All social life, stability, progress, depend upon each man's confidence in his neighbor, a reliance upon him to do his duty.

A man is truly ethical only when he obeys the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist, and shrinks from injuring anything that lives.

An insult directed at the wicked is not to be censured; on the contrary, the honest man, if he has sense, can only applaud.

Men become builders by building and lyreplayers by playing the lyre; so too we become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.

It is virtue that gives glory; that will endenizen a man everywhere.

A basically dishonest man can survive longer in the church or the classroom than he can in the grain exchange or the furniture business.

The main question ... is not what motive inspired the law, but what it will be possible for men of bad motive to do with the law.

We're living in times where men commit crimes and crime don't have a face.

The fact that a man is a newspaper reporter is evidence of some flaw of character.

We are all honorable men here, we don 't have to give each other assurances as if we were lawyers.

A just law is a man-made code that squares with the moral law, or the law of God. An unjust law is a code that is out of harmony with the moral law.

The good man makes others good.

When Jesus comes back, these crazy, greedy, capitalistic men are gonna kill him again.

Weak men act to satisfy their needs, stronger men their duties.

Men never do good unless necessity drives them to it; but when they are free to choose and can do just as they please, confusion and disorder become rampant.

Maimonides taught that it is better that 10 criminals go free than let one innocent man be executed. The Innocence Project represents that point of view.

Every man has the right to life, to bodily integrity.