Quotes About Ethics

A man must either imitate the vicious or hate them.

And I loathe people who find it harder to put up with a gown askew than with a soul askew and who judge a man by his bow, his bearing and his boots.

For there is no air that men so greedily draw in, that diffuses itself so soon, and that penetrates so deep as that of license.

For men may prove and use their friends, as the poet expresses it, usque ad aras, meaning that a friend should not be required to act contrary to the law of God.

Was man made for science, or was science made for man?

The privileged man, whether he be privileged politically or economically, is a man depraved in intellect and heart.

Modern man worships at the temple of science, but science tells him only what is possible, not what is right.

We claim we believe in compassion, which is an abstract, and when it's personified we discredit the man

Man is the being who is involuntarily and voluntarily busy with himself and his surroundings, between two broadcasting stations of good and evil, until one or the other ultimately prevails.

There are things a man must not do even to save a nation.

Morality has nothing to do with such a man as I am.

The law, that is what makes men stay honest.

Policemen and prisons ought never to be the means used to bring men back to the practice of religion.

An efficient government is dangerous in the hands of the wrong man. Sadly, the right sort of man never seems interested in the job.

Revolutionary men with principles were not really different from the rest. They used their cleverness to get, in return for principles, what other men buy with their money.

Even an evil man can have principles—he can be true to his own evil, which is not always so easy.

Wars may be fought by decent men, but they're not won by them.

Men do monstrous things but if you call a man a monster you have absolved yourself of blame. You don't have to think that you might ever do these things. I don't think that's true

A man only has a soul to be won or lost.

In proportion as a man is selfish, so far has he receded from the motive which constitutes virtue.

It's wrong to flog a man. It's against his being a man.

We love justice greatly, and just men but little.

Fine thoughts are wealth, for the right use of which Men are and ought to be accountable,-- If not to Thee, to those they influence.

Ambition, in a private man is a vice, is in a prince the virtue.