Quotes About Ethics

Every man's actions belong to him.

Men that talk of their own benefits are not believed to talk of them because they have done them, but to have done them because they might talk of them.

No man is bound to be rich or great, - no, nor to be wise; but every man is bound to be honest.

I don't know what a man is. Only that every man has his price.

The man who is always talking about being a gentleman, never is one.

We want men to rule the nation who care more for and love better the nation's welfare than gold and silver, fame or popularity.

The evil that men do lives on the front pages of greedy newspapers, but the good is oft interred apathetically inside.

I cannot understand how a man can appear in print claiming to disbelieve everything that he presupposes when he puts on the surplice. I feel it is a form of prostitution.

We have lost the invaluable faculty of being shocked a faculty which has hitherto almost distinguished the Man or Woman from the beast or child.

Any man who does not like dogs and want them about does not deserve to be in the White House.

There are two modes of establishing our reputation; to be praised by honest men, and to be abused by rogues.

The upright, if he suffer calumny to move him, fears the tongue of man more than the eye of God.

Amongst the sons of men how few are known Who dare be just to merit not their own.

The first rule of business is: Do other men for they would do you

Nothing that man ever invents will absolve him from the universal necessity of being good as God is good, righteous as God is righteous, and holy as God is holy.

I am not aware that payment, or even favors, however gracious, bind any man's soul and conscience in questions of highest morality and highest importance.

A man who lived on the banks of the Niger should not wash his hands with spittle.

Many an honest man practices upon himself an amount of deceit sufficient, if practised upon another, and in a little different way, to send him to the state prison.

I am clearly vulnerable on the question of socializing under circumstances not appropriate for a married man.

No man is a good citizen, a good neighbor, a good friend, or a good man just because he obeys the law. The intrinsic worth is determined mainly by the intrinsic make-up.

I didn't want to send a man to hell on an empty stomach.

The superior man does what is proper to the station in which he is; he does not desire to go beyond this.

The superior man has a dignified ease without pride. The mean man has pride without a dignified ease.

A person of character takes as much trouble to discover what is right as the lesser men take to discover what will pay.