Quotes About Ethics

If a large city can, after intense intellectual efforts, choose for its mayor a man who merely will not steal from it, we consider it a triumph of the suffrage.

For although Claudius had been accused of gambling and drunkenness, not only were no worse sins laid to his charge, but he had successfully established some claim to being considered a learned man.

Man is a rope, tied between beast and overman — a rope over an abyss.

The dignity of man into your hands is given; Oh, keep it well, with you it sinks or lifts itself to heaven.

In sinning, each man sins against all, and each man is at least partly guilt for another's sin. There is no isolated sin.

There is nothing more alluring to man than freedom of conscience, but neither is there anything more agonizing.

The rational man finds that his share of the cost of the wastes he discharges into the commons is less than the cost of purifying his wastes before releasing them.

Those who are ashamed of what they ought not to be ashamed; and are not ashamed of what they ought to be - such men, embracing erroneous views, enter the woeful path.

A good man with a good conscience doesn't walk so fast.

Rich men without convictions are more dangerous in modern society than poor women without chastity.

Man cannot choose his duties.

A noble birth and fortune, though they make not a bad man good, yet they are a real advantage to a worthy one and place his virtues in a fairer light.

The most enviable praise of all is just to be called an honest man.

A man given to vice is always an idealist.

Men do not differ much about what things they will call evils; they differ enormously about what evils they will call excusable.

You are already of consequence in the world if you are known as a man of strict integrity.

No man has ever yet been hanged for breaking the spirit of a law.

Any man who, having a child or children he can't support, proceeds to have another should be sterilized at once.

If I had my way, any man guilty of golf would be barred from any public office in the United States and the families of the breed would be shipped off to the white slave corrals of Argentina.

The enforcement of the law cannot depend on the justice of a cause or one man's conscience.

It is generally understood that men don't aspire after the absolute right, but only to do about as well as the rest of the world.

Man is saved by love and duty, and by the hope that springs from duty, or rather from the moral facts of consciousness, as a flower springs from the soil.

The moral and spiritual aspects of both personal and international relationships have a practical bearing which so-called practical men deny.

Instead of studying how to make it worth men's while to buy my baskets, I studied rather how to avoid the necessity of selling them.