Quotes about Ethics
Among many parallels which men of imagination have drawn between the natural and moral state of the world, it has been observed that happiness as well as virtue consists in mediocrity.
- Samuel Johnson
Conscience is a man's compass, and though the needle sometimes deviates, though one often perceives irregularities in directing one's course by it, still one must try to follow its direction.
- Vincent Van Gogh
An honest man is respected by all parties.
- William Hazlitt
Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.
- Samuel Johnson
The science that studies the supreme good for man is politics.
- Aristotle
Wicked me obey from fear; good men,from love.
- Aristotle
What is the highest of all goods achievable by action? ...both the general run of man and people of superior refinement say that it is happiness ...but with regard to what happiness is they differ.
- Aristotle
Moral character is assessed not by what a man knows but by what he loves
- St. Augustine
The good man, though a slave, is free; the wicked, though he reigns, is a slave, and not the slave of a single man, but- what is worse - the slave of as many masters as he has vices.
- St. Augustine
But man is freer than all the animals, on account of his free-will, with which he is endowed above all other animals.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
The best men of the best epochs are simply those who make the fewest blunders and commit the fewest sins.
- Thomas Henry Huxley
Clever talk and domineering manner have little to with being a Man at His Best.
- Confucius