Quotes about Ethics
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
I have always thought it would be easier to redeem a man steeped in vice and crime than a greedy, narrow-minded, pitiless merchant.
- Albert Camus
The principles which men give to themselves end by overwhelming their noblest intentions.
- Albert Camus
I am an absolute pacifist...It is an instinctive feeling. It is a feeling that possesses me, because the murder of men is disgusting.
- Albert Einstein
The thinking man must oppose all cruelties no matter how deeply rooted in tradition or surrounded by a halo.
- Albert Schweitzer
Education and morals will be found almost the whole that goes to make a good man.
- Aristotle
Excellence or virtue in a man will be the disposition which renders him a good man and also which will cause him to perform his function well.
- Aristotle
The man who confers a favour would rather not be repaid in the same coin.
- Aristotle
The virtue of the good man is necessarily the same as the virtue of the citizen of the perfect state.
- Aristotle
Man's character is the product of his premises.
- Ayn Rand