Quotes About Ethics

There's no question that as science, knowledge and technology advance, that we will attempt to do more significant things. And there's no question that we will always have to temper those things with ethics.

Be just, I would always recommend to the men in power. Be just whatever happens, because, if you cannot govern with justice, even with injustice you would not govern for long.

The moral principle 'it is a duty to tell the truth' would, if taken unconditionally and singly, make all society impossible.

Fools keep their moral code in a compact and indivisible whole so that it may interfere as little as possible with their actions and leave them their freedom in all matters of detail.

Sir, I say that justice is truth in action.

It is well-known what a middleman is; he is a man who bamboozles one party and plunders the other.

Plagiarists, at least, have the merit of preservation

Justice is truth in action. ~ BENJAMIN DISRAELI, speech, Feb. 11, 1851

When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken.

Sir, I am no sycophant or worshipper of power anywhere.

I am not unconscious of the persuasive power exerted by these considerations to drag men along in the current but I am not at liberty to travel that road.

Pride is said to be the last vice the good man gets clear of

That it is better that 100 guilty persons should escape than that one innocent person should suffer, is a maxim that has been long and generally approved.

The second vice is lying; the first is running in debt.

Without justice, courage is weak.

Nothing's so apt to undermine your confidence in a product as knowing that the commercial selling it has been approved by the company that makes it.

Sell not virtue to purchase wealth, nor liberty to purchase power.

In humility imitate Jesus and Socrates.

Sin is not harmful because it is forbidden, but it is forbidden because it is hurtful.

No longer virtuous no longer free; is a Maxim as true with regard to a private Person as a Common-wealth.

A good conscience is a continual Christmas.

All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world.

There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.

Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.