Quotes About Ethics

Living virtuously is equal to living in accordance with one's experience of the actual course of nature

The greatest good is the knowledge of the union which the mind has with the whole nature.

Everything we make pollutes. The most responsible thing we can do is to make each product as well as we know how so it lasts as long as possible.

When a man wantonly destroys one of the works of man we call him a vandal. When he destroys one of the works of god we call him a sportsman.

If people destroy something replaceable made by mankind, they are called vandals; if they destroy something irreplaceable made by God, they are called developers.

The deepest, the intelligible, part of the nature of man is that part which does not take refuge in causality, but which chooses in freedom the good or the bad.

Capitalism itself is not to be condemned. And surely it is not vicious of its very nature, but it has been vitiated.

The notion that human life has greater value than any other form of life is both unjustifiable and arrogant.

The addiction to sports, therefore, in a peculiar degree marks an arrested development in man's moral nature.

Sincerity and truth are the basis of every virtue.

There should be no argument in regard to morality in art. There is no morality in nature.

The true nature of mankind comes down to a simple question: 'Do we teach children how to be good or how to be bad?'

By their very nature bureaucracies have no conscience, no memory, and no mind.

Christianity [is] a rebellion against natural law, a protest against nature.

To eat steak rare . . . represents both a nature and a morality.

Modesty in human beings is praised because it is not a matter of nature, but of will.

..to change something you do not understand is the true nature of evil.

It is his nature, not his standing, that makes the good man.

Friendship is given us by nature, not to favor vice, but to aid virtue.

The low minded are fond of deception the nature of low-minded people never changes.

I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man's virtues the means of deceiving him.

Law is born from despair of human nature.

How you do anything is how you do everything. Your "character" or "nature" just refers to how you handle all the day-to-day things in life, no matter how small.

Our view of nature will influence the way we treat nature, and our view of human nature will affect our understanding of human responsibility.