Ethics Quote by Michel de Montaigne Download Open image ““A person of honor chooses to loss his honor rather than his consicience”” — Michel de Montaigne ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Ethics
“There will be times in your life that you will be challenged to choose between honor and something else. I am asking that you… — Idowu Koyenikan Copy Share Image
“Ethical rules vary; honour does not change. A man is noble if he prefers to fail rather than to debase the tools of his… — Nicolás Gómez Dávila Copy Share Image
“You have both contested well: the one is forced by his sorrow to lament, the other by the plaintiff’s attack to tell the truth.… — Johannes Von Saaz Copy Share Image
“Honor? What do you care about honor? Honor gets people killed!' 'At least they die for something,' I say, and he doesn't protest further.” — Ned Vizzini Copy Share Image
“The honor a man carries in his heart cannot be explained, lass," he said slowly. "Nor can you measure the courage of a man… — Jan Cox Speas Copy Share Image
'Tis nobler to lose honor to save the lives of men than it is to gain honor by taking them. — David Borenstein Copy Share Image
“Once a man has lost his self-respect, and has decided to abjure his better qualities and human dignity, he falls headlong, and cannot choose… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
Illustrious man! deriving honor less from the splendor of his situation than from the dignity of his mind. — Charles James Fox Copy Share Image
Physical courage to a person of honour is easier and less risky than acts that could subject him to embarrassment or humiliation or a… — Michael Josephson Copy Share Image
“It's important to understand that while honor is an entitlement to respect--and shame comes when you lose that title--a person of honor cares first… — Kwame Anthony Appiah Copy Share Image
No man is exempt from saying silly things; the mischief is to say them deliberately. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The laws keep up their credit, not by being just, but because they are laws; 'tis the mystic foundation of their authority; they have… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one's own inner self. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Beauty is the true prerogative of women, and so peculiarly their own, that our sex, though naturally requiring another sort of feature, is never… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The height and value of true virtue consists in the facility, utility, and pleasure of its exercise; so far from difficulty, that boys, as… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Fie on the eloquence that leaves us craving itself, not things! — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The plainest sign of wisdom is a continual cheerfulness: her state is like that of things in the regions above the moon, always clear… — Michel De Montaigne Copy Share Image
The corruption of the age is made up by the particular contribution of every individual man; some contribute treachery, others injustice, atheism, tyranny, avarice,… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
If people must be talking about me, I would have it to be truthfully and justly. I would willingly return from the next world… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
In true friendship, in which I am expert, I give myself to my friend more than I draw him to me. I not only… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
There are as many and innumerable degrees of wit, as there are cubits between this and heaven. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Self-respect and a clear conscience are powerful components of integrity and are the basis for enriching your relationships with others. — Denis Waitley Copy Share Image
Ethics is the activity of man directed to secure the inner perfection of his own personality. — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
My conscience is really active. So I feel bad about spending excess amount of money on things. — Syd Copy Share Image
Records, radio, television, movies, magazines-all are monopolized by the money managers who are guided by one ethic, the words wealth and power. — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
Let us be thankful for health and competence, and, above all, for a quiet conscience. — Izaak Walton Copy Share Image
Making money doesn't oblige people to forfeit their honor or their conscience. — Guy de Rothschild Copy Share Image
“If we cannot be happy and powerful and prey on others, we invent conscience and prey on ourselves.” — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
There is no perfect justice, just as there is no absolute in ethics. But there is perfect injustice, and we know it when we… — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
I think the ethics and morals of genetic engineering are very complicated. It intrigues me. — Roger Spottiswoode Copy Share Image
