Quotes About Ethics

The Senate is a body of old men charged with high duties and misdemeanors.

When men make themselves into brutes it is just to treat them like brutes.

A man defines his standing at the court of chastity by his views of women.

To kill a man will be considered as disgusting [in the twentieth century] as we in this day consider it disgusting to eat one.

What has a man's face to do with his character? Can a man of good character help having a disagreeable face?

There are men who would do anything, asleep, and I'm not sure what stops them when they wake. I do not know how they draw the line.

...the essential intention is the real sin. A man who cannot choose ceases to be a man.

Education and morals will be found almost the whole that goes to make a good man.

Knowing what is right does not make a sagacious man.

Excellence or virtue in a man will be the disposition which renders him a good man and also which will cause him to perform his function well.

Perhaps here we have a clue to the reason why royal rule used to exist formerly, namely the difficulty of finding enough men of outstanding virtue.

Men are good in but one way, but bad in many.

Whereas the law is passionless, passion must ever sway the heart of man.

The good man is he for whom, because he is virtuous, the things that are absolutely good are good; it is also plain that his use of these goods must be virtuous and in the absolute sense good.

Men regard it as their right to return evil for evil and, if they cannot, feel they have lost their liberty.

The virtue of the good man is necessarily the same as the virtue of the citizen of the perfect state.

You can't eat the orange and throw the peel away - a man is not a piece of fruit.

Man shows his character best in trifles.

Since the generality of persons act from impulse, much more than from principle, men are neither so good nor so bad as we are apt to think them.

A man should be religious, not superstitious.

When personal judgment is inoperative (or forbidden), men's first concern is not how to choose, but how to justify their choice

Each man must live as an end in himself and follow his own rational self-interest.

Man's character is the product of his premises.

Let men be happy, informed, skillful, well behaved, and productive.