Quotes About Ethics

And it is characteristic of man that he alone has any sense of good and evil, of just and unjust, and the like, and the association of living beings who have this sense makes family and a state.

What is the highest of all goods achievable by action? ...both the general run of man and people of superior refinement say that it is happiness ...but with regard to what happiness is they differ.

Virtue alone is sufficient to make a man great, glorious, and happy.

It is better to let 100 criminals go free than to imprison 1 innocent man.

Tis against some mens principle to pay interest, and seems against others interest to pay the principle.

The fact that a belief has a good moral effect upon a man is no evidence whatsoever in favor of its truth.

Man has made 32 million laws since the Commandments were handed down to Moses on Mount Sinai... but he has never improved on God's law.

Every act of every man is a moral act, to be tested by moral, and not by economic criteria.

Ninety-eight out of 100 of the rich men in America are honest. That is why they are rich.

Moral character is assessed not by what a man knows but by what he loves

The good man, though a slave, is free; the wicked, though he reigns, is a slave, and not the slave of a single man, but- what is worse - the slave of as many masters as he has vices.

As the greatest liar tells more truths than falsehoods, so may it be said of the worst man, that he does more good than evil.

So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

Those vices [luxury and neglect of decent manners] are vices of men, not of the times. [Lat., Hominum sunt ista [vitia], non temporum.

We're flimflam artists. But remember, sonny, you can't con people unless they're greedy to begin with. W. C. Fields had it right. You can't cheat an honest man.

I'm a man of honour, a truthful person, a gentleman of absolute morality .

Difficult, say you? Difficult to be a man of virtue, truly good, shaped and fashioned without flaw in the perfect figure of four-squared excellence, in body and mind, in act and thought?

Honorable men don't settle for lives of regret.

In restoring man from evil sovereignty, we must cheat.

It has been said that absolute power corrupts absolutely, but many it not be truer to say that to be absolutely powerful a man must first corrupt himself?

The jurisdiction of a good man extends to the end of the world.

But man is freer than all the animals, on account of his free-will, with which he is endowed above all other animals.

The best men of the best epochs are simply those who make the fewest blunders and commit the fewest sins.

Nothing can be more obvious than that all animals were created solely and exclusively for the use of man.