Quotes about Ethics
The cheapness of man is every day's tragedy.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
I hold the precepts of Jesus as delivered by Himself, to be the most pure, benevolent and sublime which have ever been preached to man.
— Thomas Jefferson
A man cannot do good before he is made good.
— Martin Luther
Whether the man is an atheist or a Christian, I would judge him by his fruits, and I have therefore many agnostic friends.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
Force always attracts men of low morality.
— Albert Einstein
A good man regards the root; he fixes the root, and ail else flows out of it. The root is filial piety; the fruit brotherly love.
— Confucius
The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theater and causing a panic.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
If I am to be shot at, I want no man to be in the way of the bullet.
— Andrew Johnson
Let no guilty man escape, if it can he avoided. . . . No personal consideration should stand in the way of performing a public duty.
— Ulysses S. Grant
No public man can be just a little crooked. There is no such thing as a no-man's land between honesty and dishonesty.
— Herbert Hoover
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