Quotes About Ethics

A human-being is not a human-being while his tendencies include self-indulgence, covetousness, temper and attacking other people

Beware of greed and remain pure and just. Restrain yourself from every vice. He who cannot restrain himself, how will he be able to teach others restraint?

It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.

There must be no compromise with slavery - none whatever. Nothing is gained, everything is lost, by subordinating principle to expedience.

It is always easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.

The generation now coming out of Western schools is unable to distinguish good from bad. Even those words are unacceptable. This results in impaired thinking ability.

Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.

One who directs to good is rewarded similar to the doer of good.

You should always keep your word. All the setbacks in life come only because you don't keep your word.

No intelligent man believes that anybody ever willingly errs or willingly does base and evil deeds; they are well aware that all who do base and evil things do them unwillingly.

A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything.

Only wisdom and virtue can truly win men's devotion.

Truthfulness is composed of justice and courage.

Our integrity is never worth so much as when we have parted with our all to keep it.

How often it is that a small action becomes great by its intention. And how often it is that a great action becomes small by its intention.

Men find happiness neither by means of the body nor through possessions, but through uprightness and wisdom.

If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.

There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.

Those who give hoping to be rewarded with honor are not giving, they are bargaining.

Goodness does not consist in greatness, but greatness in goodness.

Guard your tongue from praise as you have guarded it from blame.

The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good, and how he treats people who can't fight back.

To ignore evil is to become an accomplice to it.

They say that patriotism is the last refuge to which a scoundrel clings steal a little and they throw you in jail. Steal a lot and then they make you king.