Quotes About Ethics

Man has long found solace in good talk to offset bad conduct.

I am never disappointed in Jobe Watson ... (who) is a man of the highest integrity, highest character and a great person for our footy club ... I have no concern for Jobe.

What is here a right towards men, is a duty towards the Creator.

Man Of Steel looks great, is well cast, and is, moralistically, completely rotten to the core.

He is also handsome," replied Elizabeth, "which a young man ought likewise to be, if he possibly can. His character is thereby complete.

He's a good man," Ranger said. "And you?" "I'm better.

Men blush less for their crimes than for their weaknesses and vanity. [Fr., Les hommes rougissent moins de leur crimes que de leurs faiblesses et de leur vanite.]

A guilty man is punished as an example for the mob; an innocent man convicted is the business of every honest citizen.

Where princes are concerned, a man who is able to do good is as dangerous and almost as criminal as a man who intends to do evil.

Most men only commit great crimes because of their scruples about petty ones.

We do not wish to say only that a man is responsible for his own individuality, but that he is responsible for that of all men.

God, there's teaching biology and teaching sexuality, and it's two separate things. They mix it and make it more of a morality thing where it's like, "A man and woman have a baby."

In matters of conscience that is the best sense which every wise man takes in before he hath sullied his understanding with the designs of sophisters and interested persons.

But how right is it to kill a man for something that is in his soul?

A man should live his life a certain way not because of some divine authority, but because of a personal moral obligation to himself and others.

That's a huge part foul man; that's just not cool.

As the interest of man, so his God - as his God, so he.

To live as one likes is plebian the noble man aspires to order and law.

Are we not also married to conscience which we would love to get rid of often enough since it is more bothersome than a man or a woman ever could become?

The history of a man is in his character.

Public business must always be done by somebody. It will be done by somebody or other. If wise man decline, others will not; if honest man refuse it, others will not.

To learn the worth of a man's religion, do business with him.

I'm many things, most of 'em bad. But a man of political principles? No.

It is better that a man should tyrannize over his bank balance than over his fellow-citizens.