Quotes About Ethics

The gambler is a moral suicide.

Vice has more martyrs than virtue; and it often happens that men suffer more to be lost than to be saved

He that is good, will infallibly become better, and he that is bad, will as certainly become worse; for vice, virtue and time are three things that never stand still.

In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good.

There are two way of establishing a reputation, one to be praised by honest people and the other to be accused by rogues. It is best, however, to secure the first one, because it will always be accompanied by the latter.

No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.

Worry more about your conscience than your reputation. Because your conscience is what you are, your reputation is what others think of you. And what others think of you is their problem.

The best things carried to excess are wrong.

Celebrity chefs are the leaders in the field of food, and we are the led. Why should the leaders of chemical businesses be held responsible for polluting the marine environment with a few grams of effluent, which is sublethal to marine species, while celebrity chefs are turning out endangered fish at several dozen tables a night without enduring a syllable of criticism?

Christians ought to have a different approach to business. As believers, we should view work as both service and a form of worship.

What we do flows from who we are.

Moral crusaders with zeal but no ethical understanding are likely to give us solutions that are worse than the problems.

A noble, articulate, mixed-race liberal icon takes over the Presidency of the United States. Does he make the world a better place? No, he does not. A narcissistic sociopath with a thin skin and a bad dye job disgraces the Presidency of the United States. Does he make the world a worse place? No, he does not.

Physiological experiment on animals is justifiable for real investigation, but not for mere damnable and detestable curiosity.

Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal.

There is no fundamental difference between man and the higher animals in their mental faculties... The lower animals, like man, manifestly feel pleasure and pain, happiness, and misery.

I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created parasitic wasps with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of Caterpillars.

If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.

The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man.

The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognise that we ought to control our thoughts.

Besides love and sympathy, animals exhibit other qualities connected with the social instincts which in us would be called moral.

In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate.

Greater cane does not make greater humans. (Une plus grande canne - N'agrandit l'homme.)

Money doesn't smell", but feels profiteers … ("L'argent n'a pas d'odeur", - Mais sent les profiteurs.)