Quotes About Ethics

Titles are granted, but it's your behavior that earns you respect.

Do all you can to defeat selfish shepherding in your own heart. We

the unpopularity of an obviously right action should not hinder the execution of an obviously right decision. My

A leader and a tyrant are polar opposites.

Moral leadership emerges from, and always returns to, the fundamental wants and needs, aspirations, and values of the followers.

Power wielders may treat people as things. Leaders may not.

Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done.

To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.

Liberty may be endangered by the abuses of liberty as well as by the abuses of power.

If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary.

First, you're not God. Second, this isn't heaven. Third, don't be an ass

Joy is the noblest human act. —ST. THOMAS AQUINAS

Is it right for people to critique others for their supposed un-Christian attitudes by themselves being un-Christian?

Twice a day, or at least once, make your particular examens. Be careful never to omit them. So live as to make more account of your own good conscience than you do of those of others; for he who is not good in regard to himself, how can he be good in regard to others?

Oh the gladness of their gladness when they're glad, And the sadness of their sadness when they're sad; But the gladness of their gladness, and the sadness of their sadness, Are as nothing to their badness when they're bad

Ambition is the last infirmity of noble minds.

You got guys who slap women around for five years because they didn't wear a veil. You know, guys like that ain't got no manhood left anyway. So it's a hell of a lot of fun to shoot them.

I'm not saying it's wrong to kill, if you've got a good reason: Self-defense, financial gain, political advantage, or even just to stay in practice. Killing for a rational purpose is fine. Killing because you think it will make an invisible man in the sky treat you kindly when you're dead is deranged.

those with the most passionate convictions can justify the most savage cruelties.

The best form of government is that which is most likely to prevent the greatest sum of evil.

National honor is national property of the highest value.

We must support our rights or lose our character, and with it, perhaps, our liberties.

as Kurt Vonnegut pointed out [...] the literary novel has become extraordinarily privatistic of late. It's as if the big issues (Does God exist? from whence springs decency? what sort of species is Homo Sapiens?) were either settled or not worth discusssing, and serious writers should therefore confine themselves to their various ethnic heritages and interpersonal relationships.

Persuasion psychology expert Robert Cialdini