Quotes About Ethics

No speech can stain what is noble by nature.

According to the law of nature it is only fair that no one should become richer through damages and injuries suffered by another.

Nature doesn't cheat - people do.

Adultery is the injury of nature.

The works of nature must all be accounted good.

The extreme nature of dominant-end views is often concealed by the vagueness and ambiguity of the end proposed.

The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire more, and to prevent the lower from getting more.

We ought not to treat living creatures like shoes or household belongings, which when worn with use we throw away.

We don't really think that man is that immoral, we don't think that man of his own nature would run around...fighting wars and building napalm bombs...so maybe there's something else going on

Thus, anybody who follows this nature and gives way its states will be led into quarrels and conflicts, and go against the conventions and rules of society, and will end up a criminal.

Nature does not make mistakes. Right and wrong are human categories.

Heaven is author of the virtue that is in me

The true nature of man left to himself without restraint is not nobility but savagery.

I refuse to accept the idea that the "isness" of man's present nature makes him morally incapable of reaching up for the eternal "oughtness" that forever confronts him.

Preoccupation with money is the great test of small natures, but only a small test of great ones.

A good disposition I far prefer to gold; for gold is the gift of fortune; goodness of disposition is the gift of nature. I prefer much rather to be called good than fortunate.

All men who would surpass the other animals should do their best not to pass through life silently like the beasts whom nature made prone, obedient to their bellies.

It is a question of fact, whether the influence of motives be fixed by laws of nature, so that they shall always have the same effect in the same circumstances.

To be ambitious of true honor, of the true glory and perfection of our natures, is the very principle and incentive of virtue.

The duty of man is the same in respect to his own nature as in respect to the nature of all other things, namely not to follow it but to amend it.

Virtue is an inner strength. It expands your nature.

Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason.

Our judgements of good and evil ... presuppose God as the standard. If there's no God, there's neither good nor evil. There's just nature doing what it does

Governments never do any great good things from mere principle, from mere love of justice ... You expect too much of human nature when you expect that.