Quotes About Ethics

Right defeated is stronger than evil triumphant.

If one wants another only for some self-satisfaction, usually in the form of sensual pleasure, that wrong desire takes the form of lust rather than love.

Love has had a lot of press-agenting from the oldest times; but there are higher, nobler things than love.

Had there been no Plato, the Christians would have had a harder time selling the idea that all God really wanted from us was fraternal love.

Business leaders must find ways to infuse mundane business activities with deeper, soul-stirring ideals, such as honor, truth, love, justice, and beauty.

I admire people who just do the right thing, not looking to screw people up. I love all people.

I'm sorry for the ducks; I love foie gras.

I love the sharpness and political tone of RoboCop and I think that such a film is now urgently needed.

Love cannot exists as a duty; to tell a child that it ought to love its parents and its brother and sisters is utterly useless, if not worse.

To govern is to correct. If you set an example by being correct, who would dare to remain incorrect?

If you would govern a state of a thousand chariots (a small-to-middle-size state), you must pay strict attention to business, be true to your word, be economical in expenditure and love the people.

Love is an involuntary reaction to virtue.

Nobody can acquire honor by doing what is wrong.

Self-interest, or rather self-love, or egoism, has been more plausibly substituted as the basis of morality.

We love your adherence to democratic principles.

Do right, not to deny yourself but because you love yourself and because you love others.

If you can't love two people at once, there's something wrong with you.

Do not talk about the soul, heaven, or God. Talking about something that is not yet a reality for you amounts to falsehood.

If you love animals, obviously it doesn't make sense to hurt them.

We can be ethical only in relation to something we can see, feel, understand, love, or otherwise have faith in.

I think that business practices would improve immeasurably if they were guided by "feminine" pinciples, qualities like love, care, and intuition.

Human dignity can be achieved only in the field of ethics, and ethical achievement is measured by the degree in which our actions are governed by compassion and love, not by greed and aggressiveness.

When superiors are fond of showing their humanity, inferiors try to outstrip one another in their practice of it.

What a difference! Under the esthetic sky, everything is buoyant, beautiful, transient! when ethics arrives on the scene, everything becomes harsh, angular and infinitely boring