Quotes about Ethics
All men who have moved the world have been men who would stand true to their conscience.
— David O. McKay
The moral man is as guilty as the rest. His morality cannot save him.
— DL Moody
Men have no right to what is not reasonable, and to what is not for their benefit.
— Edmund Burke
Keep alive the light of justice, And much that men say in blame will pass you by.
— Euripides
Give a wise man an honest brief to plead and his eloquence is no remarkable achievement.
— Euripides
Oh how unhappy is the prince served by such men who are so easily corrupted.
— Francois Rabelais
Thus, as a result of heightened consciousness, a man feels as if it's all right if he's bad as long as he knows it- as though that were any consolation.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
A man's behaviour may be quite harmless and even beneficial, when he ismorally behaving like a scoundrel. And he may do great harm when he is morally acting on the highest principles.
— George Bernard Shaw
The yoke a man creates for himself by wrong-doing will breed hate in the kindliest nature.
— George Eliot
To say that a man is an idealist is merely to say that he is a man.
— GK Chesterton
We ought to be interested in that darkest and most real part of a man in which dwell not the vices that he does not display, but the virtues that he cannot.
— GK Chesterton
There is a case for telling the truth; there is a case for avoiding the scandal; but there is no possible defense for the man who tells the scandal, but does not tell the truth.
— GK Chesterton