Quotes About Ethics

Without doubt half the ethical rules they din into our ears are designed to keep us at work.

Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons!

The laws of conscience, which we pretend to be derived from nature, proceed from custom...

Our morality seems to me only a check on the ultimate domination of force, just as our politeness is a check on the impulse of every pig to put his feet in the trough.

We have, in fact, two kinds of morality side by side: one which we preach but do not practise, and another which we practise but seldom preach.

What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then and there happen to like, and immorality is what they dislike.

It is not how busy you are, but why you are busy — the bee is praised, the mosquito is swatted.

From our ancestors come our names, but from our virtues our honors.

As ye sew, so shall ye rip.

If Ayn Rand were an up-and-coming author today, she wouldn't write about steel or railroads, it would be net neutrality.

A boy doesn't have to go to war to be a hero. He can say he doesn't like pie, when he sees there is not enough to go round.

But I am now seasoned enough to have learned that the hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning.

Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.

Well! some people talk of morality, and some of religion, but give me a little snug PROPERTY.

Collis P. Huntington... maintained a rigid code of ethics of his own framing. It was, however, a code of power, currently described about as follows: "Whatever is not nailed down is mine. Whatever I can pry loose is not nailed down."

Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism. We must beware of thinking of good and evil as absolute opposites.

He lik'd those literary cooks Who skim the cream of others' books; And ruin half an author's graces, By plucking bon-mots from their places...

HELL. A place where the Ten Commandments have a police force behind them.

The Christian Right is neither.

Let every man sweep in front of his own door and the whole world will be clean.

Oh, duty is what one expects from others, it is not what one does one's self.

Recklessness is a species of crime...

The mad scientist was once only a creature of gothic romance; now he is everywhere, busy torturing atoms and animals in his laboratory.

If you lend me your ears, I shall doubtless take your hearts too. That I may not lead you into any wrong, let me warn you of this. Never violate the sacredness of your individual self-respect. Be true to your own mind and conscience, your heart and your soul.