Quotes about Ethics
We must not close our eyes to the fact that there are conspiring men who would pollute young boys, and girls of corresponding age, for sake of increasing profits.
— David O. McKay
To act with doubleness towards a man whose own conduct was double, was so near an approach to virtue that it deserved to be called by no meaner name than diplomacy.
— George Eliot
I have always thought it would be easier to redeem a man steeped in vice and crime than a greedy, narrow-minded, pitiless merchant.
— Albert Camus
The principles which men give to themselves end by overwhelming their noblest intentions.
— Albert Camus
I am an absolute pacifist...It is an instinctive feeling. It is a feeling that possesses me, because the murder of men is disgusting.
— Albert Einstein
The thinking man must oppose all cruelties no matter how deeply rooted in tradition or surrounded by a halo.
— Albert Schweitzer
Education and morals will be found almost the whole that goes to make a good man.
— Aristotle
Excellence or virtue in a man will be the disposition which renders him a good man and also which will cause him to perform his function well.
— Aristotle
The man who confers a favour would rather not be repaid in the same coin.
— Aristotle
The virtue of the good man is necessarily the same as the virtue of the citizen of the perfect state.
— Aristotle
Man's character is the product of his premises.
— Ayn Rand
We want men to rule the nation who care more for and love better the nation's welfare than gold and silver, fame or popularity.
— Brigham Young