Quotes about Ethics And Values

The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with joy are goodness, beauty, and truth.

Choose the life that is noblest, for custom can make it sweet to thee.

You can't raise the standard of women's morals by raising their pay envelope. It lies deeper than that.

so important to believe in a concept of goodness, even if we make it up ourselves. We don't really make it up. it's there, isn't it? Oh, yes, it's there, she said. It's there because we put it there.

So far as ethics is concerned, my thesis that there are no objective values is specifically the denial that any such categorically imperative element is objectively valid.

Let me give you a tip on a clue to men's characters: the man who damns money has obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it has earned it.

Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved.

The war between the ideal and the real, between what's right and what's convenient, between the larger good and personal interest is the contest that unfolds in the soul of every American.

This is what makes leftists leftists: an unearned sense of moral superiority over you.

It's as if they'd heard that there are values one is supposed to honor and this is what one does to honor them -- so they went through the motions, like ghosts pulled by some sort of distant echoes from a better age.

I like the English. They have the most rigid code of immorality in the world.

Mais, comme il éprouvait une peine infinie à découvrir des idées, il prit la spécialité des déclamations sur la décadence des moeurs sur l'abaissement des caractères, l'affaissement du patriotisme et l'anémie de l'honneur français. (Il avait trouvé le mot anémie dont il était fier.)

A lie doesn't become truth, wrong doesn't become right and evil doesn't become good, just because it's accepted by a majority.

A good name is still to be preferred over great riches. Especially it is to be preferred to the appearance of riches, aquired with nothing down and nothing to pay for 2 months.

Americans] have realized many things for which the rest of the world is still struggling...[yet] the civilization and the morals of the Americans fall far below their own principles.

The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with joy are goodness, beauty, and truth.

Its like people care more abput their pride than about what's correct, about the truth.

A lie doesn't become truth, wrong doesn't become right, and evil doesn't become good, just because it's accepted by a majority.

I find this in all these places I've been travelling - from India to China, to Japan and Europe and to Brazil - there is a frustration with the terms of public discourse, with a kind of absence of discussion of questions of justice and ethics and of values.

T]he American fanatic has always suffered moral disorientation at the mere thought of anyone 'getting something for nothing'.

Everything is useful which contributes to fix in the principles and practices of virtue.

Larry, wouldn't it be a fine thing, a swell thing, a boon to the community of man and to all creatures great and small, if this girl's soul was as ripe and stunning as her ass.

Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted?

All reform except a moral one will prove unavailing.