Quotes about Ethics
When some men discharge an obligation, you can hear the report for miles around.
— Mark Twain
No man is straitly honest to any but himself and God.
— Mark Twain
It cannot, indeed, be denied, that a good man is more worthy of love than a bad one.
— Martin Luther
Men are not made religious by performing certain actions which are externally good, but they must first have righteous principles, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions.
— Martin Luther
Just as it is the duty of all men to obey just laws, so it is the duty of all men to disobey unjust laws.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
A man who hasn't found anything he'd die for doesn't deserve to live.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
A man only has a soul to be won or lost.
— Paulo Coelho
Fine thoughts are wealth, for the right use of which Men are and ought to be accountable,-- If not to Thee, to those they influence.
— Philip James Bailey
A bad man becomes worse when he apes a saint.
— Publilius Syrus
He who injures one man threatens many.
— Publilius Syrus
Ethics and religion differ herein; that the one is the system of human duties commencing from man; the other, from God. Religion includes the personality of God; Ethics does not.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men imagine that they communicate their virtue or vice only by overt actions, and do not see that virtue or vice emit a breath every moment.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson