Quotes about Ethics
Law is twofold -- natural and written. The natural law is in the heart, the written law on tables. All men are under the natural law.
- Ambrose of Milan
Only a man's character is the real criterion of worth.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart.
- Joseph Addison
Dishonor waits on perfidy. A man should blush to think a falsehood; it is the crime of cowards.
- Samuel Johnson
Men fall in private long before they fall in public.
- JC Ryle
Ethical man: A Christian holding four aces.
- Mark Twain
No man can break any of the Ten Commandments. He can only break himself against them.
- GK Chesterton
Left to himself, man is half beast and half devil.
- George Whitefield
The line, often adopted by strong men in controversy, of justifying the means by the end.
- St. Jerome
The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment that it brings than because of its own foulness.
- Aristotle
Justice is a contract of expediency, entered upon to prevent men harming or being harmed.
- Epicurus
In order to become a great man, one must first be a great rascal.
- Winston Churchill