Quotes About Ethics

We already know that anonymous letters are despicable. In etiquette, as well as in law, hiring a hit man to do the job does not relieve you of responsibility.

Remember, one just man causes the Devil greater affliction than a million blind believers.

A lawyer is a man who helps you get what is coming to him.

We know that priorities are amiss in the world when a man gets a military medal of honor for killing another man and a dishonorable discharge for loving one.

Clever talk and domineering manner have little to with being a Man at His Best.

Without goodness a man cannot endure adversity for long, nor can he enjoy prosperity for long. The good man is naturally at ease with goodness. The wise man cultivates goodness for its advantage.

The gentleman is calm and at ease. The gentleman is dignified but not proud; the small man is proud but not dignified.

The end of the day is near when small men make long shadows.

When you see a good man, think of emulating him; when you see a bad man, examine your own heart.

The gentleman sees what is right while the small man sees what is profitable.

The superior man, while his parents are alive, reverently nourishes them; and, when they are dead, reverently sacrifices to them. His thought to the end of his life is how not to disgrace them.

The superior man * * * in regard to his speech * * * is anxious that it should be sincere.

Who owns a man, Durnik?" the blond young man asked sadly. "The one who rules him, or the one who pays him?

The purpose of the church is to make bad men good and good men better.

It strikes me as bad manners for a magazine to accept one of my advertisements and then attack it editorially - like inviting a man to dinner then spitting in his eye.

The best of all the preachers are the men who live their creeds.

Men love to hear of their power, but have an extreme disrelish to be told their duty.

By being faithful in that which is another man's, it qualifies you for that which is your own.

Perhaps some day someone will explain how, on the level of man, Auschwitz was possible; but on the level of God, it will forever remain the most disturbing of mysteries.

In the long run, every man will pay the penalty for this own misdeeds.

Natural justice is a compact resulting from expediency by which men seek to prevent one man from injuring others and to protect him from being injured by them.

I don't like a man to be too efficient. He's likely to be not human enough.

Man's liberty ends, and it ought to end, when that liberty becomes the curse of its neighbors.

The belief in authority is the source of conscience; which is therefore not the voice of God in the heart of man, but the voice of some men in man.