Quotes about Ethics
So many laws argue so many sins.
— John Milton
If you put a chain around the neck of a slave, the other end fastens itself around your own.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport: wlien the tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.
— George Bernard Shaw
The sun shines even on the wicked.
— Seneca
I beg leave to assure the Congress that no pecuniary consideration could have tempted me to accept this arduous employment at the expense of my domestic ease and happiness. I do not wish to make any profit from it.
— George Washington
Vice can be learnt, even without a teacher.
— Seneca
I believe that Virtue shows quite as well in rags and patches as she does in purple and fine linen.
— Charles Dickens
The only reward of virtue is virtue.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Most men admire Virtue, who follow not her lore.
— John Milton
Wickedness is weakness.
— John Milton
There is no such thing as concealment. Commit a crime, and the earth is made of glass.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Gratitude is the mother of the virtues.
— Cicero