Quotes About Ethics

The current philosophy was that Buddha was a communist.

A GOOD LIE IN THE RIGHT PLACE CAN MAKE UP FOR ANY NUMBER OF WRONGS.

Ah me! what torture to have to deal with virtue, cold and merciless as the letter of the law!

Why does crime, even when as powerful as Cæsar, and assured of being beyond punishment, strive always for the appearances of truth, justice, and virtue? Why does it take the trouble?

If we repay evil with good, then how do we repay the good?

A man's character is his guardian divinity.

Without injustices, the name of justice would mean what?

Ethos anthropoi daimon--a man's character is his fate.

To God all things are fair and good and right, but men hold some things wrong and some right.

What use are these people's wits, who let themselves be led by speechmakers, in crowds, without considering how many fools and thieves they are among, and how few choose the good? The best choose progress toward one thing, a name forever honored by the gods, while others eat their way toward sleep like nameless oxen.

Man tends to treat all his opinions as principles.

The basic creed of the gangster, and for that matter of any other type of criminal, is that whatever a man has is his only so long as he can keep it, and that the one who takes it away from him has not done anything wrong, but has merely demonstrated his smartness.

Honor is not the exclusive property of any political party.

Where there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned

The only trouble with capitalism is capitalists; they're too damn greedy.

When there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned.

The use of the atomic bomb, with its indiscriminate killing of women and children, revolts my soul.

The only trouble with capitalism is capitalists; they're too damned greedy.

But with all its truth, the argument cannot answer the time-honored question: who educates the educators, and where is the proof that they are in possession of "the good?

The quantification of nature, which led to its explication in terms of mathematical structures, separated reality from all inherent ends and, consequently, separated the true from the good, science from ethics.

There are no morals about technology at all. Technology expands our ways of thinking about things, expands our ways of doing things. If we're bad people we use technology for bad purposes and if we're good people we use it for good purposes.

Aggression which is flagitious when committed by one, is not sanctioned when committed by a host.

The behavior of men to the lower animals, and their behavior to each other, bear a constant relationship.

Government is essentially immoral.