Quotes About Ethics

pleaded the usefulness of the work, mine convinced me that nothing was useful which was not honest.

Would you live with ease, do what you ought, not what you please.

Rarely use [sex] but for health or offspring, never to dullness, weakness, or the injury of your own or another's peace or reputation.

Do not do that which you would not have known.

You may be more happy than princes if you will be more virtuous.

Thou shalt not receive any gift; for a gift bindeth the wise, and perverteth the words of the righteous." (Exod. xxiii. 8.)

Conduct is more convincing than language,

the prophets repeatedly declare "that the son shall not suffer for the iniquity of the father, but every one be answerable for his own sins.

I have always set a greater Value on the Character of a Doer of Good, than on any other kind of Reputation

Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices.

A lawyer starts life giving 500 worth of law for 5 and ends giving 5 worth for 500.

I pity the man who wants a coat so cheap that the man or woman who produces the cloth will starve in the process.

If people were Superior to Animals, they'd take better care of the world

Our Bisy Backson religions, sciences, and business ethics have tried their hardest to convince us that there is a Great Reward waiting for us somewhere, and that what we have to do is spend our lives working like lunatics to catch up with it. Whether it's up in the sky, behind the next molecule, or in the executive suite, it's somehow always farther along than we are—just down the road on the other side of the world, past the moon, beyond the stars…

If people were superior to animals, they'd take good care of them," said Pooh.

I can't imagine any fairminded future person feeling there was an important moral difference between the Soviet gulag and the American one.

Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances.

History has shown us time and again that what is right is not what is popular.

Wir können nicht unsere Hand dafür ins Feuer legen, wie wir unter bestimmten extremen Umständen reagieren. Seither bin ich Moralisten gegenüber sehr empfindlich.

Books and harlots have their quarrels in public.

Among politicians the esteem of religion is profitable the principles of it are troublesome.

A man's duty is to keep his end up.

When people are decent, things work out for everybody," my father instructs us. "That's been my theory all through life. If you're making money, let the other fellow make it, too.… If you can work a thing out so that everybody profits, that's the ideal business.

Everybody was being decent, and when people are decent, thing work out for everybody. That has been my theory all through life. If you're making money, let the other fellow make it too. If somebody's getting hurt, it's bad, but if you can work a thing out so that everybody profits that's the ideal business.