Quotes About Ethics

When leaders act contrary to conscience, we must act contrary to leaders.

You will go further, even if you may not acquire wealth, but you will be happier and well contented if you go via the straight path in life -- that is honesty and integrity.

Physical beauty will fade over time, but true beauty (virtue) is timeless.

As people and as a planet we suffer from upward mobility and downward nobility.

People in industrialized nations used to be called "citizens." Now we are "consumers"—which means (according to the dictionary definition of "consume") people who "use up," "waste," "destroy," and "squander.

My only aversion to vice, is the price.

if Westerners deem themselves too smart, too moral, or too soft to stop aggressors in this complex nuclear age, then—as Socrates and Aristotle alike remind us—they can indeed become real accomplices to evil through inaction.

With the demise of the inward-looking, stodgy yeomen, enormous wealth and poverty ensued. The Greek-speaking Hellenistic world could now use the Hellenic genius without ethical constraint.

One persons left hand, will cost a friend their right hand.

I'm religiously opposed to religion.

Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime.

Conscience is God present in man.

Can man, created good by God, be made wicked by man?

Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights of the Spirit.

To be a saint is the exception to be upright is the rule. Err, falter, sin, but be upright. To commit the least possible sin is the law for man. Sin is a gravitation.

You ask me what forces me to speak? a strange thing; my conscience.

Those who use the Bible as a reference for moral behavior are simply cherry-picking those teachings, such as the Golden Rule, that they have independently decided are moral for other reasons, while ignoring those teachings with which they disagree.

You can hype a questionable product for a little while, but you'll never build an enduring business.

There are professions more harmful than industrial design, but only a very few of them.

You are responsible for what you put into the world.

Proctor is a moralist who says, "I've always believed that why a subject behaved as he did was a proper subject for medical study, but how he behaved was a proper basis for judging a person.

The bourgeois…they will always be traitors and cowards

He who does not cry out the truth when he knows the truth becomes the accomplice of the liars and falsifiers.

To steal from a rich man has always been a greater crime than to kill a poor man.