Quotes about Ethics
Men and times change-but principles-never.
— Grover Cleveland
Man is oftentimes weak-minded enough to be caught in the snare of greed and honeyed words.
— Mahatma Gandhi
What is the chief end of man?-to get rich. In what way?-dishonestly if we can; honestly if we must.
— Mark Twain
The fence and the boundary line are the symbols of the spirit of justice. They set the limits upon each man's interest to prevent one from taking advantage of the other.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
The precepts of the law may be comprehended under these three points: to live honestly, to hurt no man willfully, and to render every man his due carefully.
— Aristotle
A good man may make the best even of poverty and disease, and the other ills of life; but he can only attain happiness under the opposite conditions
— Aristotle
To mind your own business incorporates the whole duty of man.
— Brigham Young
Nothing in Man is either worse or better for being shared with the beasts.
— CS Lewis
A moderately bad man knows he is not very good: a thoroughly bad man thinks he is alright. This is common sense really. You understand sleep when you are awake, not well you are sleeping.
— CS Lewis
You find out more about God from the Moral Law than from the univerise in general just as you find out more about a man by listening to his conversation than by looking at a house he has built.
— CS Lewis
I regard Duryodhana and his party as the baser impulses in man, and Arjuna and his party as the higher impulses.
— Mahatma Gandhi
What you do to these men on California's Death Row, you do to God.
— Mother Teresa