Quotes About Ethics

Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey the laws too well.

The upright, honest-hearted man Who strives to do the best he can, Need never fear the church's ban Or hell's damnation.

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.

Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it, a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.

Let no man be sorry he has done good, because others have done evil.

Rather a man with 50 per cent ability and 100 per cent character than a man with 100 per cent ability and 50 per cent character.

If it were not for injustice, men would not know justice.

Often even a whole city suffers for a bad man who sins and contrives presumptuous deeds.

You will ever remember that all the end of study is to make you a good man and a useful citizen.

A gallant man is above ill words.

All just order in the world is based on this, that man give man what is his due.

Nothing that isn't a real crime makes a man appear so contemptible and little in the eyes of the world as inconsistency.

The immorality of men triumphs over the amorality of women.

Now and then an innocent man is sent to the legislature.

The recognition of the sanctity of the life of every man is the first and only basis of all morality.

As a rule, there is no surer way to the dislike of men than to behave well where they have behaved badly.

Men are not to be judged by their looks, habits, and appearances; but by the character of their lives and conversations, and by their works.

No one can harm the man who does himself no wrong.

In the supposed state of nature, all men are equally bound by the laws of nature, or to speak more properly, the laws of the Creator.

Man considers the actions, but God weighs the intentions.

I love to see honest and honorable men at the helm, men who will not bend their politics to their purses, nor pursue measures by which they may profit, and then profit by their measures.

Conscience is a man's compass.

Men use thought only to justify their wrong doings, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.

The walls are raised against honest men in civic life.