Quotes about Ethics
Just as it is the duty of all men to obey just laws, so it is the duty of all men to disobey unjust laws.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
A man who hasn't found anything he'd die for doesn't deserve to live.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
A man only has a soul to be won or lost.
- Paulo Coelho
Fine thoughts are wealth, for the right use of which Men are and ought to be accountable,-- If not to Thee, to those they influence.
- Philip James Bailey
Every brave man is a man of his word; to such base vices he cannot stoop, and shuns more than death the shame of lying.
- Pierre Corneille
A bad man becomes worse when he apes a saint.
- Publilius Syrus
He who injures one man threatens many.
- Publilius Syrus
Ethics and religion differ herein; that the one is the system of human duties commencing from man; the other, from God. Religion includes the personality of God; Ethics does not.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men imagine that they communicate their virtue or vice only by overt actions, and do not see that virtue or vice emit a breath every moment.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men of character are the conscience of the society to which they belong.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Man's actions are the picture book of his creeds.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We want a state of things in which crime will not pay, a state of things which allows every man the largest liberty compatible with the liberty of every other man.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson