Quotes About Ethics

Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.

A government or an administration, who means and acts honestly, has nothing to fear, and consequently has nothing to conceal;

Any system of religion that has anything in it that shocks the mind of a child,cannot be true.

Let it then be heard, and let man learn to feel that the true greatness of a nation is founded on principles of humanity, and not on conquest.

It is not because the right principles have been violated, that they are to be abandoned.

Character is much easier kept than recovered, and that man, if any such there be, who, from sinister views, or littleness of soul, lends unseen his hand to injure it, contrives a wound it will never be in his power to heal.

The wise, and the worthy, need not the triumph of a pamphlet;

that which is right will become popular, and that which is wrong, though by mistake it may obtain the cry or fashion of the day, will soon lose the power of delusion, and sink into disesteem.

virtue, as I have already remarked, is not hereditary, neither is it perpetual.

whoever the men be to whom the government of any country is entrusted, they ought to be the best and wisest that can be found, and if they are not so, they are not fit for the station.

It is not because right principles have been violated, that they are to be abandoned.

enforce obedience thereto. The object, on either side, doth not justify the means; for the lives of men are too

Teach governments humanity. It is their sanguinary punishments which corrupt mankind.

I have always held it an opinion (making it also my practice) that it is better to obey a bad law, making use at the same time of every argument to shew its errors and procure its repeal, than forcibly to violate it; because the precedent of breaking a bad law might weaken the force, and lead to a discretionary violation, of those which are good.

False testimony is always good against itself.

Immediate necessity makes many things convenient, which if continued would grow into oppressions. Expedience and right are different things. When

Daca datorez bani cuiva si nu ii pot plati, iar acela ameninta ca ma arunca in inchisoare, datoria mea poate fi luata asupra sa de altcineva si o poate plati in locul meu. Dar daca am savarsit o infractiune, se schimba toate circumstantele cazului: dreptatea morala nu-l poate socoti vinovata pe cel nevinovat chiar daca cel nevinovat s-ar oferi pe sine. A presupune ca o astfel de actiune este un lucru drept inseamna a distruge principiul existentei sale, care este insasi dreptatea.

Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and torturous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness, with which more than half the Bible7 is filled, it would be more consistent that we called it the word of a demon, than the Word of God. It is a history of wickedness, that has served to corrupt and brutalize mankind; and, for my own part, I sincerely detest it, as I detest everything that is cruel.

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What, I should only trust good people? Man, good people get bought and sold every day. Might as well trust somebody evil once in a while, it makes no more or less sense.

Bertrand Russell, scarcely an existentialist: can anyone really believe that the revulsion they feel when they witness the gratuitous infliction of pain is simply an expression of the fact that they don't happen to like it?

If you don't drink, smoke, or drive a car, you're a tax evader.

Perhaps the surest test of an individual's integrity is his refusal to do or say anything that would damage his self-respect.