Quotes About Ethics

Are you unselfish? That is the question. If you are, you will be perfect without reading a single religious book, without going into a single church or temple.

Do good because it is good to do good. Ask no more.

Why should a Man be Moral? Because this strengthens his will.

A good practice carried to an extreme and worked in accordance with the letter of the law becomes a positive evil.

If money help a man to do good to others, it is of some value; but if not, it is simply a mass of evil, and the sooner it is got rid of, the better.

No man is to be judged by the mere nature of his duties, but all should be judged by the manner and the spirit in which they perform them.

Krishna preached in the midst of the battlefield.

Only what is done as duty for duty's sake ... can scatter the bondage of Karma

This is the sage who always works for work's sake without caring for the results.

find that even this idea of duty undergoes change, and that the greatest

Swami Vivekananda LECTURES ON THE BHAGAVAD GITA

Work for work's sake. Worship for worship's sake. Do good because it is good to do good. Ask no more.

The mind of the man who receives gifts is acted on by the mind of the giver, so the receiver is likely to become degenerated. Receiving gifts is prone to destroy the independence of the mind, and make us slavish. Therefore, receive no gifts.

Basically, we are a whole world of people desperately trying to figure out what is the dark side of our natures and how much can we explore without becoming something else.

As readers, we sense when the game is being played for real and when something else is afoot: pride, showmanship, the pursuit of power, self-aggrandizement, revenge, making money. Not that there's anything wrong with any of that, but I dislike closing a book with the sense that I've been had.

It is not easy to do something good, but it is extremely difficult to do something bad.

It's not about earning a paycheck, it's about doing something good that you believe in.

There is no conflict in looking good. You buy things you need, and then you do something good for society.

I don't like the way some actors, when playing a nasty character, will try to grab hold of something good about them.

For everybody that does something bad there's gotta be someone that does something good.

Those ethical choices often are made every day at a time, minute by minute in ways that you may not even relate to ethics, so I'm going to walk them through the whole story from that perspective and hopefully they'll be able to walk away with something good from it.

I don't think any of us know how we would react until we were put in a situation where we have to do something bad or do something good. I think I'd like to believe I'd act like a decent human being, but I'm realistic to know I don't know.

Magazines and advertising are flogging the idea that you have to keep changing things and get something new. I think that's balls - evil. But obviously that's your livelihood.

Sometimes what's right isn't as important as what's profitable.