Quotes about Ethics
Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.
— Joseph Addison
Hunting is not a proper employment for a thinking man.
— Joseph Addison
Men say I am a saint losing himself in politics. The fact is that I am a politician trying my hardest to become a saint.
— Mahatma Gandhi
The man who coerces another not to eat fish commits more violence than he who eats it.
— Mahatma Gandhi
A man's first duty is to his own conscience and honor; the party and country come second to that, and never first.
— Mark Twain
Conscience, man's moral medicine chest.
— Mark Twain
Man must never be treated as a means to the end of the state, but always as an end within himself.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
The greater a man is in power above others, the more he ought to excel them in virtue. None ought to govern who is not better than the governed.
— Publilius Syrus
When a man is old enough to do wrong he should be old enough to do right also.
— Oscar Wilde
Sin is a thing that writes itself across a man's face. It cannot be concealed.
— Oscar Wilde
Man is made for something better than disturbing dirt.
— Oscar Wilde
The man with a clear conscience probably has a poor memory.
— Oscar Wilde