Quotes about Ethics
It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
— Mark Twain
The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creatures that cannot.
— Mark Twain
Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion.
— Aristotle
Yes the truth is that men's ambition and their desire to make money are among the most frequent causes of deliberate acts of injustice.
— Aristotle
He is happy who lives in accordance with complete virtue and is sufficiently equipped with external goods, not for some chance period but throughout a complete life.
— Aristotle
The greatest crimes are not those committed for the sake of necessity but those committed for the sake of superfluity. One does not become a tyrant to avoid exposure to the cold.
— Aristotle
Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.
— Aristotle
We become just by the practice of just actions, self-controlled by exercising self-control, and courageous by performing acts of courage.
— Aristotle
The man who does not enjoy doing noble actions is not a good man at all.
— Aristotle
it is all wrong that a person who is going to be deemed worthy of the office should himself solicit it... for no one who is not ambitious would ask to hold office.
— Aristotle
Political society exists for the sake of noble actions, and not of mere companionship.
— Aristotle
Man's work as Man is accomplished by virtue of Practical Wisdom and Moral Virtue, the latter giving the right aim and direction, the former the right means to its attainment;
— Aristotle