Quotes about Ethics
We want men to rule the nation who care more for and love better the nation's welfare than gold and silver, fame or popularity.
- Brigham Young
I cannot understand how a man can appear in print claiming to disbelieve everything that he presupposes when he puts on the surplice. I feel it is a form of prostitution.
- CS Lewis
We have lost the invaluable faculty of being shocked a faculty which has hitherto almost distinguished the Man or Woman from the beast or child.
- CS Lewis
The first rule of business is: Do other men for they would do you
- Charles Dickens
Sincerity is that whereby self-completion is effected, and its way is that by which man must direct himself.
- Confucius
The man of upright life is obeyed before he speaks.
- Confucius
Evil succeeds when good men do nothing
- Edmund Burke
There is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between men.
- Epicurus
When good men die their goodness does not perish.
- Euripides
In sinning, each man sins against all, and each man is at least partly guilt for another's sin. There is no isolated sin.
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
Rich men without convictions are more dangerous in modern society than poor women without chastity.
- George Bernard Shaw
Man cannot choose his duties.
- George Eliot