Quotes about Ethics
If a man deliberately abstains from wine to such an extent that he does serious harm to his nature, he will not be free from blame.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
God grant that men of principle shall be our principal men.
- Thomas Jefferson
The moral sense, or conscience, is as much part of a man as his leg or arm. It is given to all in a stronger or weaker degree.. It may be strengthened by exercise.
- Thomas Jefferson
Every religion is good that teaches man to be good; and I know of none that instructs him to be bad.
- Thomas Paine
A man's life is always dealing with permanence, that is the most dangerous kind of irresponsibility is to think of your doings as temporary.
- Wendell Berry
Indeed, we may go further and assert that anyone who does not delight in fine actions is not even a good man.
- Aristotle
I am not morally obligated to care more for a man than he cares for himself.
- Ayn Rand
While the best men are guided by love, most mean are still goaded by fear.
- St. Augustine
The wise man applauds he who he thinks most virtuous; the rest of the world applauds the wealthy.
- Samuel Johnson
A man who is good enough to go to heaven is good enough to be a clergyman.
- Samuel Johnson
Hemingway shot himself. I don't like a man that takes the short way home.
- William Faulkner
A man's ledger does not tell what he is, or what he is worth. Count what is in man, not what is on him, if you would know what he is worth-whether rich or poor.
- Henry Ward Beecher