Quotes About Ethics

I am no herald to inquire into men's pedigree; it sufficeth me if I know their virtues.

... can life be made undignified by any act of man?

Every brave man is a man of his word; to such base vices he cannot stoop, and shuns more than death the shame of lying.

I do not think it is permitted that a better man be harmed by a worse.

There is no perfecter endowment in man than political virtue.

The most glorious exploits do not always furnish us with the clearest discoveries of virtue or vice in men.

I say only that this man [Donald Trump] is not Christian if he has said things like that [about wall]. We must see if he said things in that way and in this I give the benefit of the doubt.

Bodily pain affects man as a whole down to the deepest layers of his moral being.

A man who would mutilate himself is well damned, isn't he?

A bad man becomes worse when he apes a saint.

He who injures one man threatens many.

Teach erring man to spurn the rage of gain.

The first view is "bad apple." Bad apple is excusable. It's sort of like, something went bad with this man. But the second option is police corruption, so it's a problem with the department.

But Father has also taught him: Treat a man as if he had a fine reputation to protect, and he will usually endeavor to deserve it.

Bring a lawsuit against a man who can pay; the poor man's acts are not worth the expense

Saying 'I could have done more,' Zin, is what marks a man as a man and not a God.

A feminist man is a bit like a vegetarian: it's the humanitarian principle he's defending, I suppose.

Ethics and religion differ herein; that the one is the system of human duties commencing from man; the other, from God. Religion includes the personality of God; Ethics does not.

Men imagine that they communicate their virtue or vice only by overt actions, and do not see that virtue or vice emit a breath every moment.

Men of character are the conscience of the society to which they belong.

Man's actions are the picture book of his creeds.

To aim to convert a man by miracles is a profanation of the soul.

Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey the laws too well. What satire on government can equal the severity of censure conveyed in the word politics ....?

I think the vice of our housekeeping is that it does not hold man sacred. The vice of government, the vice of education, the viceof religion, is one with that of the private life.