Quotes About Ethics

Religion is but a book; it is your own self and the decisions you make that form goodness and badness.

Those who enforce laws must also abide by them.

Those who wish to eradicate evil are those who create it.

To live in a place is to live by their values.

Try to destroy evil and you may find yourself become the very evil you first set out to destroy.

Prince Akeem Oh, it was a most amazing game. The Giants of New York took on the Packers of Green Bay. The Giants triumphed by kicking a pigskin ball through a big H. A most ripping victory. Cleo McDowell Son... I'm just going to tell you this one time. If you want to keep working here, stay off the drugs.

When I was teaching children I began every day writing this on the blackboard: "Do to others what you would like them to do to you", telling them how much better the world would be if everybody lived by this rule.

Love of justice is for most men only the courage to suffer injustice.

One may be just, if one is not human.

Hélas! qu'est-ce donc que le bien et le mal! Est-ce une même chose par laquelle nous témoignons avec rage nôtre impuissance, et la passion d'atteindre à l'infini par les moyens même les plus insensés?

El bien es la victoria sobre el mal, la negación del mal. Si se canta el bien, el mal es eliminado por ese oportuno acto. No canto lo que no hay que hacer. Canto lo que hay que Hacer. Lo primero no contiene lo segundo. Lo segundo contiene lo primero.

As James Madison put it in Federalist No. 40, "The choice must always be made, if not one of the lesser evil, at least of the GREATER, not the PERFECT good." And in the last of the Federalist Papers, he said, "I never expect to see a perfect work from imperfect man.

The first step for a leader is to be right with yourself. Integrity is the basis of leadership.

The father who does not teach his son his duties is equally guilty with the son who neglects them.

When you see a worthy person, endeavor to emulate him. When you see an unworthy person, then examine your inner self.

The superior man is firm in the right way, and not merely firm.

A scholar who loves comfort is not worthy of the name.

When a country is well governed, poverty and a mean condition are things to be ashamed of. When a country is ill governed, riches and honor are things to be ashamed of.

Five things constitute perfect virtue: gravity, magnanimity, earnestness, sincerity and kindness.

Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness.

Sincerity and truth are the basis of every virtue.

Think no vice so small that you may commit it, and no virtue so small that you may over look it.

The way you cut your meat reflects the way you live.

The man of wisdom is never in two minds about right and wrong; the man of benevolence never worries about the future; the man of courage is never afraid.