Quotes About Ethics

There is a certain right by which we many deprive a man of life, but none by which we may deprive him of death; this is mere cruelty.

That's just the point: an honest and sensitive man opens his heart, and the man of business goes on eating - and then he eats you up.

Man should make himself a lot of good karma.

A man who makes a one-dollar profit on his expense account is dishonest. A man who loses five cents on one is a damned fool.

A moderately honest man with a moderately faithful wife, moderate drinkers both, in a moderately healthy house: that is the true middle class unit.

Away with the cant of 'Measures not men!'-the idle supposition that it is the harness and not the horses that draw the chariot along.

When people ask if the United States can afford to place on trial the president, if the system can stand impeachment, my answer is, "Can we stand anything else?

Middle-class people are becoming desperate. It can cause a moral man to break bad.

Compromise: An agreement between two men to do what both agree is wrong.

It is the act of a bad man to deceive by falsehood.

It is often the case that a man who can't tell a lie thinks he is the best judge of one.

The law which attempts a man's life [capital punishment] is impractical, unjust, inadmissible. It has never repressed crime - for a second crime is every day committed at the foot of the scaffold.

For it is, and must remain, the case that we must obey God rather than man.

An honest man is all right even if he's an idiot...but a crook must have brains.

What is a good enough principle for an American citizen ought to be good enough for the working man to follow.

If fifty thousand men were to die for the good of the State, I certainly would weep for them, but political necessity comes before everything else.

Violence is a choice a man makes and he alone is responsible for it.

You can either be a con or a man—you can't be both.

Humanity is not perfect in any fashion; no more in the case of evil than in that of good. The criminal has his virtues, just as the honest man has his weaknesses.

When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income.

To an honest man, it is an honor to have remembered his duty.

Most men are afraid of a bad name, but few fear their consciences.

Original sin is that thing about man which makes him capable of conceiving of his own perfection and incapable of achieving it.

The person, whom you favored with a loan, if he be a good man, will think himself in your debt after he has paid you.