Quotes about Ethics
When a man has once forfeited the reputation of his integrity, he is set fast, and nothing will then serve his turn, neither truth nor falsehood.
— John Tillotson
To be perfectly just is an attribute of the divine nature; to be so to the utmost of our abilities, is the glory of man.
— Joseph Addison
A man's moral conscience is the curse he had to accept from the gods in order to gain from them the right to dream.
— William Faulkner
Every man, in his own opinion, forms an exception to the ordinary rules of morality.
— William Hazlitt
The wealthiest man among us is the best
— William Wordsworth
Only men of character are trusted.
— Zig Ziglar
A man who does not forget an agreement is resolved and honorable man.
— Confucius
There are three things against which the wise man guards: lust when young, quarrels when strong, and covetousness when old.
— Confucius
Virtue is more to man than either water or fire. I have seen men die from treading on water and fire, but I have never seen a man die from treading the course of virtue.
— Confucius
The superior man is firm in the right way and not merely firm.
— Confucius
We must not close our eyes to the fact that there are conspiring men who would pollute young boys, and girls of corresponding age, for sake of increasing profits.
— David O. McKay
To act with doubleness towards a man whose own conduct was double, was so near an approach to virtue that it deserved to be called by no meaner name than diplomacy.
— George Eliot