Quotes about Ethics
Give a wise man an honest brief to plead and his eloquence is no remarkable achievement.
- Euripides
Oh how unhappy is the prince served by such men who are so easily corrupted.
- Francois Rabelais
Thus, as a result of heightened consciousness, a man feels as if it's all right if he's bad as long as he knows it- as though that were any consolation.
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
A man's behaviour may be quite harmless and even beneficial, when he ismorally behaving like a scoundrel. And he may do great harm when he is morally acting on the highest principles.
- George Bernard Shaw
The yoke a man creates for himself by wrong-doing will breed hate in the kindliest nature.
- George Eliot
To say that a man is an idealist is merely to say that he is a man.
- GK Chesterton
We ought to be interested in that darkest and most real part of a man in which dwell not the vices that he does not display, but the virtues that he cannot.
- GK Chesterton
There is a case for telling the truth; there is a case for avoiding the scandal; but there is no possible defense for the man who tells the scandal, but does not tell the truth.
- GK Chesterton
Men may keep a sort of level of good, but no man has ever been able to keep on one level of evil.
- GK Chesterton
If man is not special, if he's not deeply different from any other thing, then there's no good reason not to treat him just like any other thing when it's convenient for us to do so.
- Greg Koukl
Mankind is one, seeing that all are equally subject to the moral law. All men are equal in God's eyes.
- Mahatma Gandhi
Individual liberty is allowed to man only to a certain extent. He cannot forget that he is a social being and his individual liberty has to be curtailed at every step.
- Mahatma Gandhi