Quotes about Ethics
Men may keep a sort of level of good, but no man has ever been able to keep on one level of evil.
— GK Chesterton
If man is not special, if he's not deeply different from any other thing, then there's no good reason not to treat him just like any other thing when it's convenient for us to do so.
— Greg Koukl
Mankind is one, seeing that all are equally subject to the moral law. All men are equal in God's eyes.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Individual liberty is allowed to man only to a certain extent. He cannot forget that he is a social being and his individual liberty has to be curtailed at every step.
— Mahatma Gandhi
That which impels man to do the right thing is God.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Civilization is that mode of conduct which points out to man the path of duty.
— Mahatma Gandhi
I can no more preach nonviolence to a cowardly man than I can tempt a blind man to enjoy healthy scenes.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Himsa does not need to be taught, Man as animal is violent, but as spirit is nonviolent.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Few men are wantonly wicked.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Understand however that every man is worth just so much as the things are worth about which he busies himself.
— Marcus Aurelius
When trying a case [the famous judge] L. Cassius never failed to inquire "Who gained by it?" Man's character is such that no one undertakes crimes without hope of gain.
— Cicero
There are some natures which never grow large enough to speak out and say a bad act is a bad act, until they have inquired into the politics or the nationality of the man who did it.
— Mark Twain