Quotes About Ethics

To my students, I say this: one day each of you will be confronted by a decision that requires you to put the needs of the land above your own need to be right. Until you can accept that humiliation, you cannot be a Truthken.

No doubt he is a man of principle,' said Kamren. 'But they are the wrong principles.

What kind of a man thinks it's appropriate to give his soon-to-be bride a lethal weapon for a wedding present?

But I know that any man whose very presence incites me to nearly throw away my reputation-or whatever shreds of it remain-is someone I must avoid at any cost.

Real religion is no religion at all.

La pierre voudrait se soustraire aux lois de la pesanteur ? Impossible. Impossible, si le mal voulait s'allier avec le bien.

The friend of order has made half his way to virtue.

The loss of taste for what is right is loss of all right taste.

Indiscretion, rashness, falsehood, levity, and malice, produce each other.

The ambitious sacrifices all to what he terms honor, as the miser all to money.

Who is respectable when thinking himself alone and free from observation will be so before the eye of all the world.

Nothing is more revealing of an age than its hypocrisies.

Propriety was a rigid master, but one that must be obeyed if one wanted to keep a sterling reputation.

It seems that many people who are deficient in character have an overabundance of charm. I

Culture, more than rule books, determines how an organization behaves.

We do some things because we should, whether it feels good or not. Nonetheless, doing what we should ought not necessarily feel bad.

Wild. If there is one thing I disapprove of it's the unnatural capture and taming of wild animals, whether an elephant or a bird. To me, the only good cage is an empty cage.

Elephants operate on a steadfast principle that all other lifeforms must give way to them, and as far as they were concerned, foreign tourists at a sit down dinner around a swimming pool were no different than a troop of baboons at a swimming hole.

If there is one thing I disapprove of it's the unnatural capture and taming of wild animals, whether an elephant or a bird. To me, the only good cage is an empty cage.

Under Saddam's ruthless regime, where human rights barely nudged the moral barometer, animals didn't rate at all.

The only justice is to follow the sincere intuition of the soul, angry or gentle.

How can any man be free without a soul of his own, that he believes in and won't sell at any price?

Conscience was chiefly fear of society, or fear of oneself.

The only principle I can see in this life, is that one must forfeit the less for the greater.