Quotes about Ethics
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
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