Quotes About Ethics

It is a disturbing sign of the times when the two most transformative science technologies affecting the globe—biotechnology and nanotechnology—are governed by no external ethical or legal frameworks to protect public safety and other public interests, despite the fact that both industries have benefited from heavy taxpayer-funded government support.

Each day, each one of us chooses not to do many things that would be legal but offensive to those around us.

In terms of religious beliefs, Pashtuns are Sunni Muslims and follow a nonwritten ethical code called Pashtunwali. Its main principles include Melmastia (hospitality and respect for all visitors regardless of race, religion, nationality, or financial status), Nanawatai (offering asylum or protection from one's enemies), Badal (the practice of taking revenge against a wrongdoer), and Turah (bravery).

Religion is to do right. It is to love, it is to serve, it is to think, it is to be humble.

When a whole nation is roaring Patriotism at the top of its voice, I am fain to explore the cleanness of its hands and purity of its heart.

Men wish to be saved from the mischiefs of their vices, but not from their vices.

Civilization depends on morality.

Philanthropies and charities have a certain air of quackery.

The true test of civilization is, not the census, nor the size of the cities, nor the crops, but the kind of man that the country turns out.

The foundation of culture, as of character, is at last the moral sentiment.

Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.

Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.

To live without duties is obscene.

The true test of civilization is, not the census, nor the size of cities, nor the crops—no, but the kind of man the country turns out.

Do what you know and perception is converted into character.

People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.

There is no den in the wide world to hide a rogue. Commit a crime and the earth is made of glass. Commit a crime, and it seems as if a coat of snow fell on the ground, such as reveals in the woods the track of every partridge, and fox, and squirrel.

You cannot do wrong without suffering wrong.

Uma organização ruim sempre derrotará uma boa pessoa.

In Gandhi's view of the world, 'generally, it is the father who should be the bread-winner', while 'family life is the first and greatest thing. Its sanctity must remain.

VIII A second dark spot, also growing darker, is the growing criminality of the political class. As

The Kingsford–Maitland view of Christianity appealed to Gandhi because it asked not for exaltation of a personal Saviour, but fidelity to one's conscience.

Eighteen applications were received for a licence to make small cars; only that of the prime minister's son was approved, despite his having no past experience in this regard.

Do what is right at a given moment and leave it behind