Quotes About Ethics

A man who works evil against another works it really against himself, and bad advice is worst for the one who devised it

There was not after all a single kind of strife, but on earth there are two kinds: one of them a man might praise when he recognized her, but the other is blameworthy.

A man who stops at nothing short of the law is very clever indeed!

Do you know how a man makes his way here? By brilliant genius or by skilful corruption. You must either cut your way through these masses of men like a cannon ball, or steal among them like a plague.

Who is a good man? He who keeps the decrees of the fathers, and both human and divine laws. [Lat., Vir bonus est quis? Qui consulta patrum, qui leges juraque servat.]

No one is born without vices, and he is the best man who is encumbered with the least.

Even virtue followed beyond reason's rule May stamp the just man knave, the sage a fool.

He who preserves a man's life against his will does the same thing as if he slew him.

The contempt of money is no more a virtue than to wash one's hand is one; but one does not willingly shake hands with a man that never washes his.

If a man's religion does not affect his use of money, that man's religion is vain.

No hell will frighten men away from sin; no dread of prospective misery; only goodness can cast hell out of any man, and set up the kingdom of heaven within.

Morality will be very difficult for the man who does not pray.

I come from the liberal side of thinking: Better one guilty man should walk free than one innocent man found guilty.

When you send a clerk on business to a distant province, a man of rigid morals is not your best choice.

Whether arrived at through reason or revelation, natural law is the highest law known to man. It is anchored in the very existential nature of man and is therefore a priori just.

Man is a responsible moral agent, though he is also divinely controlled; man is divinely controlled, though he is also a responsible moral agent.

A tiny little wooden man [was] slowly ascending the steps to a real set of gallows, both perched on a box that read: Reusable Hangman — Spell It Or He'll Swing!

Did Alan Moore get screwed on his contract? Of course. Lots of people get screwed, but we still have Spider-Man and lots of other heroes.

I am primarily concerned with the condition of man.

It is good that man should accept at face value the cheats of sense and snares of flesh, and through the fogs of sentiency pursue the lures and lies of passion.

What a man knows isn't important. It's what he is that counts

Man cannot live by profit alone.

What is called virtue in the common sense of the word has nothing to do with this or that man's prosperity, or even happiness.

Contact with the affairs of state is one of the most corrupting of the influences to which men are exposed.