Quotes about Ethics
The world is upheld by the veracity of good men: they make the earth wholesome.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives.
— Samuel Johnson
Never trust a man who says he is only a little crooked, and that the crookedness is exercised in your interest.
— Theodore Roosevelt
By the divine providence [animals] are intended for man's use... Hence it is not wrong for man to make use of them, either by killing or in any other way whatsoever.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
If a man deliberately abstains from wine to such an extent that he does serious harm to his nature, he will not be free from blame.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
God grant that men of principle shall be our principal men.
— Thomas Jefferson
The moral sense, or conscience, is as much part of a man as his leg or arm. It is given to all in a stronger or weaker degree.. It may be strengthened by exercise.
— Thomas Jefferson
Every religion is good that teaches man to be good; and I know of none that instructs him to be bad.
— Thomas Paine
A man's life is always dealing with permanence, that is the most dangerous kind of irresponsibility is to think of your doings as temporary.
— Wendell Berry
Indeed, we may go further and assert that anyone who does not delight in fine actions is not even a good man.
— Aristotle
I am not morally obligated to care more for a man than he cares for himself.
— Ayn Rand
While the best men are guided by love, most mean are still goaded by fear.
— St. Augustine