Quotes About Ethics

Is there worse evil than that which goes in the mask of good?

I intend to follow the path of virtue. It will not be overcrowded.

There is no vanity so damaging to a man's character as pride over his good deeds!

Both Hegel and Darwin can be mis-used to support a belief in the "survival of the fittest".

Being a leader is a lonely place, you got to be responsible for the decision you made that effect a lot of people. And when you make a decision it's never clear that your decision is right or wrong, it's always in a gray-area.

The state of nature has a law of nature to govern it, which obliges every one: and reason, which is that law, teaches all mankind, who will but consult it.

In transgressing the law of nature, the offender declares himself to live by another rule than that of reason and common equity.

I am sure, zeal or love for truth can never permit falsehood to be used in the defense of it.

Children should from the beginning be bred up in an abhorrence of killing or tormenting any living creature; and be taught not to spoil or destroy any thing, unless it be for the preservation or advantage of some other that is nobler.

A man can no more justly make use of another's necessity to force him to become his vassal by withholding that relief God requires him to afford to the wants of his brother, than he that has more strength can seize upon a weaker, master him to his obedience, and with a dagger at his throat, offer him death or slavery.

In the discharge of thy place set before thee the best examples; for imitation is a globe of precepts.

Beyond all the fires of love through which one passes there is the star of Duty, and happy the individual who can live in its serenity.

Brother, you can't go to jail for what you're thinking.

To suppose as we all suppose, that we could be rich and not behave as the rich behave, is like supposing that we could drink all day and stay sober.

Most people sell their souls, and live with a good conscience on the proceeds.

That we should practice what we preach is generally admitted; but anyone who preaches what he and his hearers practice must incur the gravest moral disapprobation.

The lusts and greeds of the body scandalize the Soul but it has to come to heel.

We grow with years more fragile in body, but morally stutter, and can throw off the chill of a bad conscience almost at once.

All Reformers, however strict their Conscience, live in houses just as big as they can pay for.

To suppose, as we all suppose, that we could be rich and not behave as the rich behave, is like supposing that we could drink all day and keep absolutely sober.

We grow with years more fragile in body, but morally stouter, and can throw off the chill of a bad conscience almost at once.

There is no surer road to perdition than the ledger glands dictate your direction.

Solberg; nature's greatest argument against cloning.

A hard lesson had been learned--that man himself suffers most when his hand despoils the earth and robs it of its legitimate fruits.