Quotes About Ethics

Only men of character are trusted.

If one has a good disposition, what other virtue is needed? If a man has fame, what is the value of other ornamentation?

Most celebrated men live in a condition of prostitution.

Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it.

The superior man is intelligently, not blindly, faithful.

A man who does not forget an agreement is resolved and honorable man.

Virtue is more to man than either water or fire. I have seen men die from treading on water and fire, but I have never seen a man die from treading the course of virtue.

The superior man governs men, according to their nature, with what is proper to them, and as soon as they change what is wrong, he stops.

I have yet to meet a man as fond of high moral conduct as he is of outward appearances.

Men of principle are sure to be bold, but those who are bold may not always be men of principle.

The superior man is firm in the right way and not merely firm.

Of neighborhoods, benevolence is the most beautiful. How can the man be considered wise who when he had the choice does not settle in benevolence.

I'm still a martial artist at heart. I believe in controlling yourself... I think that's huge in life-to be a good man.

When a man gets his money in bad ways, when he sees the better course and takes the worse, then the devil's in his heart, and that fixes him.

We must not close our eyes to the fact that there are conspiring men who would pollute young boys, and girls of corresponding age, for sake of increasing profits.

I can honestly, and proudly, say that I never was on the casting couch. Oh, of course there have been advances from certain men in the movie industry, but nothing overwhelming.

Virtue must be valuable, if men and women of all degrees pretend to have it.

Most religions do not make men better, only warier.

The paradoxical and tragic situation of man is that his conscience is weakest when he needs it most.

The day is for honest men, the night for thieves.

Don't jump on a man unless he is down.

It is little the sign of a wise or good man, to suffer temperance to be transgressed in order to purchase the repute of a generous entertainer.

We've become a nation of con men, living by selling double glazing to each other.

A brave man hazards life, but not his conscience.