Quotes About Ethics

If the alternative is to keep all just men in prison, or give up war and slavery, the State will not hesitate which to choose.

How does it become a man to behave towards the American government today? I answer, that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it.

The laboring man has not leisure for a true integrity day by day.

There is but little virtue in the action of masses of men.

A man that has lost moral sense is like a man in battle with both of his legs shot off: he has nothing to stand on.

The most miserable pettifogging in the world is that of a man in the court of his own consciences.

As we sit here and idly chat, there are woman, female human beings, rolling around in strange beds with strange men, and we are making money from that.

Hanging was the worst use a man could be put to.

No public man can be just a little crooked.

Where do murderers go, man! Who's to doom, when the judge himself is dragged to the bar?

All men of goodwill have this in common - that our works put us to shame.

Animals make us Human.

We raise them for us; that means we owe them some respect. nature is creul but we dont have to be. I wouldnt want to have my guts ripped out by a lion. I'd much rather die in a slaughter house if it were done right.

If you can, help others; if you cannot do that, at least do not harm them.

Extreme law is often extreme injustice.

There is a demand in these days for men who can make wrong appear right.

Too much liberty corrupts us all.

Remember, my sisters, that if we are not good we are much more to blame than others.

Tengo para mí que honras y dineros casi siempre andan juntos, y que quien quiere honra no aborrece dineros, y que quien los aborrece que se le da poco de honra.

never seem unable to find a reason for thinking I am being virtuous when I make excuses for myself.

To navigate in a world without value is to be without rudder or destination, and yet without science, we navigate blind. To many, apparently, blindness is preferable.

I was doing it again, and I do NOT ogle strangers.

Vegans plant goodwill.

Cockroaches really put my "all creatures great and small" creed to the test.