Quotes About Ethics

hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty is the best policy.

Labour to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience.

The foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing is a vice so mean and low that every person of sense and character detests and despises it.

Human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.

Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

The politician who steals is worse than a thief. He is a fool. With all the grand opportunities around for the man with a political pull, there's no excuse for stealin' a cent.

My government will be open. Anyone found guilty of corruption will be dealt with in accordance with the law. If you are corrupt you will have to hang your boots.

Freedom is the great organizing principle of a life lived in a truly human way.

Homo voluntatis cannot explain why some things that can be done should not be done.

If moral relativism was legally absolutized in the name of tolerance, basic rights were also relativized and the door was open to totalitarianism.

but he has never played the demagogue.

Freedom means the freedom to behave coarsely, basely, foolishly.

A man given to vice is always an idealist.

S'il n'y avait que des salauds dans le monde, le Réalisme serait aussi le Bon Sens, car le Réalisme est précisément le bon sens des salauds.

Oh, everybody knows that although they may be hard workers, they are not easy to deal with, and they've skimmed the district for all the cream they can get. But after all, though they may rob us, at least they respect us. That makes for a kind of social solidarity between us and them—deplore it or not, it exists, and everything that exists should be used for some good purpose.

The uncivilized behavior of some human beings in a zoo has to be seen to be believed.

There are three subjects on which the knowledge of the medical profession in general is woefully weak they are manners, morals, and medicine.

They have fooled the world. Or else the world doesn't give a damn. What confounds me is that no one seems to ask what right they have to put us in prisons at all. The assumption seems to be that it's all right for Jews to be jailed and treated like dogs, provided they aren't murdered.

I knew something about myself. Killing was indecent, depraved. I would not get used to it. One killed to survive, to keep one's loved ones alive. No good attached to ending the lives of others. That Ukrainian kid had parents, a family, hopes. Like the millions of us now dying for no reason.

When in doubt, do the right thing

When people who are driven by a vision see something wrong, they might say to their teammates, "I feel bad because we're not building the kind of system we can be proud of. What shall we do so we don't feel this way?" On

Which do you hate more: breaking your word or dying?" "I don't know. I've never done either.

Answer me this: is it worse to end a stupid task falsely or to continue a stupid task honestly?