Quotes About Ethics

It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance. - Thomas Huxley

The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.

Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.

When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.

He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it the second time.

An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens.

It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.

It is reasonable that everyone who asks justice should do justice

The principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.

Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.

I have the consolation of having added nothing to my private fortune during my public service, and of retiring with hands clean as they are empty.

A strict observance of the written laws is doubtless one of the highest virtues of a good citizen, but it is not the highest. The laws of necessity, of self-preservation, of saving our country when in danger, are of higher obligation. To lose our country by a scrupulous adherence to written law would be to lose the law itself, with life, liberty, property and all those who are enjoying them with us; thus absurdly sacrificing the end to the means.

A Man's management of his own purse speaks volumes about character

Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching.

Wonderful is the effect of impudent and persevering lying.

Orang yang membiarkan dirinya berbohong sekali, akan menyadari bahwa lebih mudah berbohong untuk kedua dan ketiga kali sampai menjadi kebiasaan.

God grant that men of principle shall be our principal men.

Everything is useful which contributes to fix in the principles and practices of virtue.

The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest. Only aim to do your duty, and mankind will give you credit where you fail.

Self-love is no part of morality. Indeed it is exactly its counterpart. It is the sole antagonist of virtue leading us constantly by our propensities to self-gratification in violation of our moral duties to others.

We have the wolf by the ears; and we can neither hold him, nor safely let him go. Justice is in one scale, and self-preservation in the other.

The pretense that the workings of the mind, like the actions of the body, are subject to the control of laws, does not seem sufficiently demolished. ... The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others.

The contest is not between Us and Them, but between Good and Evil, and if those who would fight Evil adopt the ways of Evil, Evil wins.

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