Quotes About Ethics

You really believe that there are subjects that shouldn't be photographed?' George said. He spoke evenly and softly. 'Maybe I do,' I said, thinking aloud. 'You believe in censorship then,' said Stephen. I looked up at Stephen. His face was tight, combative. 'Not censorship,' I said slowly. 'That's external. I mean control from the inside. After all, pictures can lie, too, can convey falseness rather than truth.

Love your country, not for her power or wealth, but for her selflessness and her idealism.

What fervent love of herself would Virtue excite if she could be seen!

Power is most safe with those who are not in love with it!

Those lovers scorn whom that love doth possess? Do they call virtue there ungratefulness?

The cause of all sins in every case lies in the person's excessive love of self.

Who are the true philosophers? Those whose passion is to love the truth.

Treating a person as a means to an end, and an end moreover which in this case is pleasure, the maximization of pleasure, will always stand in the way of love.

If you claim to 'love' animals but you eat animal products, you need to think critically about how you understand love.

The love of economy is the root of all virtue.

In our hearts there is a ruthless dictator, ready to contemplate the misery of a thousand strangers if it will ensure the happiness of the few we love.

His motto is "Love Thy Neighbor". His neighbor is an 18 year old hooker.

No being incapable of controlling their own mind or developing ethics and a loving character can ever be a Master. First we must have accomplishment.

The only right stewardship is that which is tested by the rule of love.

The French, who love their dogs, sometimes eat their horses. The Spanish, who love their horses, sometimes eat their cows. The Indians, who love their cows, sometimes eat their dogs.

When you are asked to love everybody indiscriminately, that is to love people without any standard, to love them regardless of whether they have any value or virtue, you are asked to love nobody.

For you it is possible to do anything; the only thing impossible for you to do is to do wrong, inasmuch as you are knowledge and justice and love.

Conscience is the frame of character, and love is the covering for it.

It is as acceptable now to love the wives of others as it is to smoke their cigars and read their books.

The final cause, then, produces motion through being loved.

Selfishness doesn't consist in a love to yourself, but in a big degree of such love.

You love people, not for what you do for them or what they do for you. You love them for their values; their virtues.

You don't love causes. You don't love everybody indiscriminately. You love only those who deserve it.

That's what I love about integrity. Each time we go inside, that's where it is.