Quotes About Ethics

Justice precedes beauty. Without justice, beauty is impossible, an obscenity. And when beauty has gone, what does a cameraman do with his eye?

Also, that which is desirable in itself is more desirable than what is desirable per accidens.

Beauty is an exquisite flower, and its perfume is virtue.

Everything you do either adds to the beauty of the world or takes away from it.

The fame which is based on wealth or beauty is a frail and fleeting thing; but virtue shines for ages with undiminished lustre.

The word 'beauty' is as easy to use as the word 'degenerate.' Both come in handy when one does or does not agree with you

We each have a moral obligation to conserve and preserve beauty in this world; there is none to waste.

There is no beauty in the finest cloth if it makes hunger and unhappiness.

Beauty comes from within; a greedy, avaricious, gossipy woman cannot be beautiful.

You cannot fake chic but you can be chic and fake fur

Rarely do we meet in one combined, a beauteous body and a virtuous mind.

Beauty is the flower of virtue.

I am one who tells the truth and exposes evil and seeks with Beauty for Beauty to set the world right.

Those three divine attributes of a perfect woman: goodness, beauty and wealth.

The beautiful is as useful as the useful." He added after a moment's silence, "Perhaps more so.

To the rich, therefore, falls the burden of Beauty. And if they cannot assume it, then they deserve to die.

Beauty adds to goodness a relation to the cognitive faculty: so that "good" means that which simply pleases the appetite; while the "beautiful" is something pleasant to apprehend.

The desire which urges us to deserve praise strengthens our good qualities, and praise given to wit, valour, and beauty, tends to increase them.

Beauty is part of the finished language by which goodness speaks.

Moral grounds are always the last refuge of people who have no sense of beauty.

Try your best to treat others as you would wish to be treated yourself, and you will find that this is the shortest way to benevolence

Whether gods exist or not, there is no way to get absolute certainty about ethics. Without absolute certainty, what do we do? We do the best we can.

If you do the best you can, you have nothing to be ashamed of. A defeat is not a disgrace.

We have always been shameless about stealing great ideas.