Quotes About Ethics

God is an idea, the devil is us.

Exactly what the powers of hell feed on: the best instincts in man.

People are attracted more towards bad things because being good has been turned into a boring duty. No adrenaline & dopamine rush, no rewards!

Do not be dismayed to learn there is a bit of the devil in you. There is a bit of the devil in us all.

what we are we potray that in our deeds.....

They have been disrespecting our values and morals for very long time because of the nature of their values system.

Freedom without responsibility? What freedom is that? None at all.

Animals shouldn't be hunted and nature shouldn't be disturbed, even destroyed, to benefit the whims of mankind

When a man wantonly destroys a work of man we call him a vandal when a man destroys one of the works of God we call him a sportsman.

It's man's nature to abuse knowledge and power, be it in the realm of science, government, or Wall Street. Take God out of the picture, and you have real trouble.

When you start learning how to give when you're young, when you get older it is second nature. Just like stealing. Start young and you keep on stealing forever. Ask my politicians.

Virtue comes by nature, learning, and practice, and thanks to virtue, all of the aforesaid may deserve approval.

Conduct yourself towards your parents as you would have your children conduct themselves towards you.

From where can your authority and license as a parent come from, when you who are old, do worse things?

We ought to esteem it of the greatest importance that the fictions which children first hear should be adapted in the most perfect manner to the promotion of virtue.

A society needs to know when to forgive, but it also needs to know when to punish.

And they certainly wouldn't take you along to a murder. That would be irresponsible parenting.

You can tell the size of a man by the size of the thing that makes him mad.

Know it for certain that without steady devotion for the Guru and unflinching patience and perseverance, nothing is to be achieved. You must have strict morality.

It's so important that your doctor take a patience's values, not his, into consideration, along with the risks and benefits of treatment when there is a question to a doctor "What would you do?".

One should feel inside oneself for right and wrong, and should have the patience to gradually realise one's God.

True patriotism sometimes requires of men to act exactly contrary, at one period, to that which it does at another, and the motive which impels them the desire to do right is precisely the same.

It is not the reporter's job to be a patriot or to presume to determine where patriotism lies. His job is to relate the facts.

To oppose corruption in government is the highest obligation of patriotism.