Quotes about Ethics
Good men are not those who now and then do a good act, but men who join one good act to another.
- Henry Ward Beecher
The happiness of man, as well as his dignity, consists in virtue.
- John Adams
Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, the post of honoris a private station.
- Joseph Addison
If a man has a right to be proud of anything, it is of a good action done as it ought to be, without any base interest lurking at the bottom of it.
- Laurence Sterne
That a man lives is because he is straight. That a man who dupes others survives is because he has been fortunate enough to be spared.
- Confucius
The superior man limits his achievements.
- Confucius
Not men but measures a sort of charm by which many people get loose from every honorable engagement.
- Edmund Burke
There are no perfectly honorable men; but every true man has one main point of honor and a few minor ones.
- George Bernard Shaw
Men and times change-but principles-never.
- Grover Cleveland
Man is oftentimes weak-minded enough to be caught in the snare of greed and honeyed words.
- Mahatma Gandhi
What is the chief end of man?-to get rich. In what way?-dishonestly if we can; honestly if we must.
- Mark Twain
The fence and the boundary line are the symbols of the spirit of justice. They set the limits upon each man's interest to prevent one from taking advantage of the other.
- Reinhold Niebuhr