Quotes About Ethics

Science must have originated in the feeling that something was wrong.

No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.

A healthy hatred of scoundrels.

Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure that there is one rascal less in the world.

You may take my purse; but I cannot have my moral Self annihilated. The purse is any Highwayman's who might meet me with a loaded pistol: but the Self is mine and God my Maker's; it is not yours; and I will resist you to the death, and revolt against you ...

Look to be treated by others as you have treated others.

Where thou findest a Lie that is oppressing thee, extinguish it. Lies exist there only to be extinguished; they wait and cry earnestly for extinction.

What are you doing in God's fair Earth and Task-garden; where whosoever is not working is begging or stealing? Wo, wo to themselves and to all, if they can only answer: Collecting tithes, Preserving game!

Our 'superior morality' is properly rather an 'inferior criminality' produced not by greater love of Virtue, but by greater perfection of Police; and of that far subtler and stronger Police, called Public Opinion.

Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against.

Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure that there is one less scoundrel in the world.

Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are

a sadist is a masochist who follows the golden rule

Sorting out what's good and bad is the province of ethics. It is also what keeps priests, pundits, and parents busy. Unfortunately, what keeps children and philosophers busy is asking the priests, pundits and parents, "Why?

A man wrote a letter to the IRS saying, "I have been unable to sleep knowing that I have cheated on my income tax. I have understated my taxable income and have enclosed a check for $150. If I still can't sleep, I will send the rest.

In so-called moral decisions, emotion always trumps reason.

Kendi özgür irademize inanmak zorunday?z, aksi durumda ahlâki sorumlulu?umuza inanmak için temelimiz kalmaz, o zaman da ahlâki seçimlerimizin denetimimiz d???nda oldu?unu kabul etmek zorunda kal?r?z

The Moral Sense Test developed by Harvard psychologists in 2003 can be found online at: moral.wjh.harvard.edu

In many walks of life, a conscience is a more expensive encumbrance than a wife or a carriage.

a station which raises a man too eminently above the level of his fellow-creatures is not the most favourable to moral or to intellectual qualities

Fie on these dealers in poison, say I: can they not keep to the old honest way of cutting throats, without introducing such abominable innovations from Italy?

For if once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he comes next to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination. Once begin upon this downward path, you never know where you are to stop.

Hayat?mda hiçbir zaman, insan biçimindeki herhangi bir yarat??a dokunmak ya da yaklaÅŸmakla kendini kirlenmiÅŸ sayacak bir insan olmad?m ben.

I think good companies can navigate being public and doing the right things for their customers.