Quotes About Ethics

Cooperation is a higher moral principle than competition.

sometimes in life doing what we shouldn't do is the emergency

Life, in that it is life, necessarily entails justice.

The true test of a man's character is not how much he has, but how much he is willing to give.

The true test of a man's character is how he behaves when no one is watching.

Civilisation needs more than the law to hold it together. You see, all mankind are not equally willing to accept as divine justice what is called human law.

Honest intention will not cure faulty practice.

If humanity does not opt for integrity we are through completely. It is absolutely touch and go. Each one of us could make the difference.

Living with a conscience is like driving a car with the brakes on.

Going through life with a conscience is like driving your car with the brakes on.

I know the goddam trouble with me, I thought. Enough brains to see it and not enough guts to stand up to it. Thousands of us, millions of us, corrupted, rootless, career-ridden, good hearts and yellow bellies, living out our lives for the easy buck, the soft berth, indulging ourselves in the illusion that we can deal in filth without becoming the thing we touch.

Let a man avoid evil deeds as a man who loves life avoids poison.

Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.

Virtue is persecuted more by the wicked than it is loved by the good.

It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.

The virtues, like the Muses, are always seen in groups. A good principle was never found solitary in any breast.

There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it.

All that we are is the result of what we have thought. If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him. If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him.

Believe nothing merely because you have been told it. Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher. But whatsoever, after due examination and analysis, you find to be kind, conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings -- that doctrine believe and cling to, and take it as your guide.

The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows

It is because of their corrupt thoughts That creatures go to Misery.

A benefit given to the good is like characters engraven on a stone; a benefit given to the evil is like a line drawn on water.

Honesty is a very expensive gift; don't expect it from cheap people.

You can't make a good deal with a bad person.