Quotes About Ethics

I cannot worship the abstractions of virtue: she only charms me when she addresses herself to my heart, speaks through the love from which she springs.

If you love your children, if you love your country, if you love the God of love, clear your hands from slaves, burden not your children or your country with them.

Duty without love is deplorable.

The word love is never mentioned in big business.

What I say is that the supreme and singular joy of making love resides in the certainty of doing evil.

I have not seen one who loves virtue as he loves beauty.

Love is much more demanding than law.

One act of pure love in saving life is greater than spending the whole of one's time in religious offerings to the gods . . .

Those thinkers who cannot believe in any gods often assert that the love of humanity would be in itself sufficient for them; and so, perhaps, it would, if they had it.

Legitimized love always despises its easygoing brother.

Love of honor is a very shady sort of possession.

A vice utterly at variance with the happiness of him who harbors it, and, as such, condemned by self-love.

With morality we correct the mistakes of our instincts, and with love we correct the mistakes of our morals.

The discussion of fur is childish.

A heart set on love will do no wrong.

By the ruler's cultivation of his own character there is set up the example of the course which all should pursue.

To will and not to do when there is opportunity is in reality not to will; and to love what is good and not to do it, when it is possible, is in reality not to love it

There should be a balance between material and spiritual progress, a balance achieved through the principles based on love and compassion.

You (God) have not only commanded continence, that is, from what things we are to restrain our love, but also justice, that is, on what we are to bestow our love.

I love science fiction but especially his because it's so humane.

You want to love everyone equally, and that's worse than impossible--it's wrong.

My point is, I don't see the need to eat animals. I love animals; besides the horrible stuff that's put in meat, I actually love cuddling with animals and petting them and stuff.

Add love, and all the lines between right and wrong were bound to disappear.

Again, as egotistical as I am, as self-centered as I am, and as much as I love strangers idolizing me, I find it very crass to be self-promoter in a way.