Quotes About Ethics

The line between the allure of liberty and the menace of of anarchy is often blurred." From: Caspian Diary

Morality is always prejudicial.

Are you kidding me? This is an issue that you need to consider according to your own principles rather than specific rules.

I find it a challenge to respect capable people who care only for their own interests.

Reading and writing are not education if they do not help people to be kind to all creatures

It is lack of contentment that leads to corruption.

Goodness is funny because it draws you to it while curiously possessing you with the untrammelled desire to turn it into something bad.

Goodness is sparked by a caution for the sake of what is good, not a fear of what is bad.

I understand now that you cannot fight for a noble cause with heinous actions.

Your actions may not directly define the kind of person you are but the words that come out your mouth surely will.

No man is a great man if he used violence to achieve his goals!

When wisdom gives way to whimsy and ethics fall to excitement, it is highly likely that the ground beneath me will 'give way' and it is I who will 'fall.

Karma assures justice for all.

You cannot call a man as a good person just because he is treating you good! He should treat everyone good to be good!

Liberty does not mean doing as you like, it means liking as you ought, and doing that.(From Slave)

Only wise men can differentiate between what is a matter of pride and what is a principle of dignity.

The man who is completely wise and virtuous has no need of glory, except so far as it…eases his way to action by the greater trust that it procures him.

How many times has our conscience firmly prompted us to 'draw the line, ' and we showed up with an eraser?

Be kind to the hawk and harm the sparrow.

You make me a sinner if you stop me giving you hospitality.

Whoever gives knowledge to a fool loses itAnd who keeps it from the deserving does wrong.

Without shame, without conscience.

When you meet familiarity which demeans true integrity, run away!

Wisdom is a kind of knowledge. It is knowledge of the nature, career, and consequences of human values.