Quotes about Ethics
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
The most enviable praise of all is just to be called an honest man.
— George Washington
Men do not differ much about what things they will call evils; they differ enormously about what evils they will call excusable.
— GK Chesterton
No man has ever yet been hanged for breaking the spirit of a law.
— Grover Cleveland