Quotes About Ethics

Morality can muddle mystical understanding and virtue is only necessary in so far as it favours success. All wisdom must be encompassed in order to achieve enlightenment.

For my own part, I believe that there is social and psychological justification for significant inequalities of incomes and wealth.

Power in any Form . . . when directed only by human Wisdom and Benevolence is dangerous.

What is all your studying worth, all your learning, all your knowledge, if it doesn't lead to wisdom? And what's wisdom but knowing what is right, and what is the right thing to do?

Assuming, as you grow older, that you're the guardian of the world's wisdom, even if you haven't necessarily lived enough to know what's right and wrong.

To give oneself ernestly to securing righteousness and justice among the people, and while respecting the gods and demons, to keep aloof from them, that may be called wisdom.

It's just as evil to kill Vietnamese as it is to kill Americans.

A s laws multiply, injustice increases.

He who is not master of his own thoughts is not accountable for his own deeds.

You have to have wisdom and knowledge as well as virtue to preserve your rights and liberties.

The community has no bribe that will tempt a wise man.

Virtue consists in avoiding vice, and is the highest wisdom. [Lat., Virtus est vitium fugere, et sapientia prima.]

The saying within the writer's room, which were my words of wisdom, if you will, was, "The punishment doesn't have to fit the crime, but there has to be a crime."

That which is selfish is immoral, and that which is unselfish is moral.

but I am prepared to go any distance to see the face of that man who can really make a distinction between the sin and the sinner. It is easy to say so.

That must have been the character of the man.

This animal called man has some religious influence, but he is guided by economy.

There is a conflict in Arjuna's heart between his emotionalism and his duty.

Strength is goodness, weakness is sin.

Now we are not much more moral than the animals. We are only held down by the whips of society. If society said today, "I will not punish you if you steal," we should just make a rush for each other's property. It is the policeman that makes us moral. It is social opinion that makes us moral, and really we are little better than animals. We understand how much this is so in the secret of our own hearts. So let us not be hypocrites.

Vivekananda once remarked: In trying to practice religion, eighty percent of people turn cheats and about fifteen percent go mad; only the remaining five percent attain the immediate knowledge of the infinite Truth.

Whosoever, therefore, asks any one to believe blindly, or drags people behind him by the controlling power of his superior will, does an injury to humanity, though he may not intend it.

A man should not be judged by the nature of his duties, but by the manner in which he does them.

The cow never tells a lie, and the stone never steals, but, nevertheless, the cow remains a cow and the stone a stone. Man steals and man tells lies, and again it is man that becomes a god.