Quotes about Ethics
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
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