Quotes about Ethics
A man's first duty is to his own conscience and honor; the party and country come second to that, and never first.
- Mark Twain
Conscience, man's moral medicine chest.
- Mark Twain
Man must never be treated as a means to the end of the state, but always as an end within himself.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The greater a man is in power above others, the more he ought to excel them in virtue. None ought to govern who is not better than the governed.
- Publilius Syrus
When a man is old enough to do wrong he should be old enough to do right also.
- Oscar Wilde
Sin is a thing that writes itself across a man's face. It cannot be concealed.
- Oscar Wilde
Man is made for something better than disturbing dirt.
- Oscar Wilde
The man with a clear conscience probably has a poor memory.
- Oscar Wilde
The world is upheld by the veracity of good men: they make the earth wholesome.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives.
- Samuel Johnson
Never trust a man who says he is only a little crooked, and that the crookedness is exercised in your interest.
- Theodore Roosevelt
By the divine providence [animals] are intended for man's use... Hence it is not wrong for man to make use of them, either by killing or in any other way whatsoever.
- St. Thomas Aquinas