Quotes about Ethics
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
I say only that this man [Donald Trump] is not Christian if he has said things like that [about wall]. We must see if he said things in that way and in this I give the benefit of the doubt.
— Pope Francis
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
Reason is not the sole basis of moral virtue in man. His social impulses are more deeply rooted than his rational life.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
Man is always worse than most people suspect, but also generally better than most people dream.
— Reinhold Niebuhr