Quotes about Ethics
The precepts of the law may be comprehended under these three points: to live honestly, to hurt no man willfully, and to render every man his due carefully.
- Aristotle
A good man may make the best even of poverty and disease, and the other ills of life; but he can only attain happiness under the opposite conditions
- Aristotle
To mind your own business incorporates the whole duty of man.
- Brigham Young
Nothing in Man is either worse or better for being shared with the beasts.
- CS Lewis
A moderately bad man knows he is not very good: a thoroughly bad man thinks he is alright. This is common sense really. You understand sleep when you are awake, not well you are sleeping.
- CS Lewis
You find out more about God from the Moral Law than from the univerise in general just as you find out more about a man by listening to his conversation than by looking at a house he has built.
- CS Lewis
I regard Duryodhana and his party as the baser impulses in man, and Arjuna and his party as the higher impulses.
- Mahatma Gandhi
What you do to these men on California's Death Row, you do to God.
- Mother Teresa
The seriousness of ecological degradation lays bare the depth of man's moral crisis... Simplicity, moderation, and discipline as well as the spirit of sacrifice must become a part of everyday life.
- Pope John Paul II
Any extraordinary degree of beauty in man or woman involves a moral charm.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
- Herman Melville
I have the greatest aversion to being a candidate on a ticket with a man whose record as an upright public man is to be in question--to be defended from the beginning to the end.
- Rutherford B. Hayes