Quotes About Ethics

Honor isn't about making the right choices. It's about dealing with the consequences.

Donald Trump steals people's dignity like the devil steals souls!

Minor vices lead to major ones, but minor virtues stay put.

There are a handful of people whom money won't spoil, and we count ourselves among them.

Many who would not take the last cookie would take the last lifeboat.

A woman's mink coat represents the sacrifice of a lot of little animals, including her husband.

Always live up to your standards — by lowering them, if necessary.

Character is what emerges from all the little things you were too busy to do yesterday, but did anyway.

Children lack morality, but they also lack fake morality.

We can only imagine the repercussions if, today, someone took one of their children and attempted to offer him or her as a sacrifice to please God, professing that God had told them to do it. No doubt such a person would be arrested and placed under psychiatric care, as they should be. But the Abraham story has become so familiar that we fail to read its disturbing dark side.

Every man is the son of his own works.

My honor is dearer to me than my life.

He preaches well that lives well, quoth Sancho; that's all the divinity I understand.

A private sin is not so prejudicial in this world as a public indecency.

Honesty's the best policy.

An honest man's word is as good as his bond.

On the word of a gentleman, and a Christian.

No better than she should be.

Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our own deeds.

He preaches well that lives well.

The ass will carry his load, but not a double load ride not a free horse to death.

Drink moderately, for drunkenness neither keeps a secret, nor observes a promise

Man is perishing. That may be, and if it is nothingness that awaits us let us so act that it will be an unjust fate.

El hombre es un fin, no un medio. La civilización toda se endereza al hombre, a cada hombre, a cada yo. ¿O qué es ese ídolo, llámese Humanidad o como se llamare, a que se han de sacrificar todos y cada uno de los hombres? Porque