Quotes About Ethics

We have the wolf by the ears, and we can neither hold him, nor safely let him go. Justice is in one scale, and self-preservation in the other.

Don't worry if you borrow, but worry if you lend.

Don't ever lower your standards for anyone. Self respect is everything.

God bless the real men and women out there that still have self respect. You are an endangered species.

Remember the three R's: Respect for self; Respect for others; and Responsibility for all your actions.

In times like the present, men should utter nothing for which they would not willingly be responsible through time and eternity.

Self-righteousness is the most shameless slut of all.

A sense of righteousness is even more dangerous than a violent temper.

The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.

One who does not act in accordance to the deep voice of his inner conscience can't be honest, truthful, trustworthy, loyal and faithful to anyone.

By self-interest, Man has become gregarious, but in instinct he has remained to a great extent solitary; hence the need of religion and morality to reinforce self-interest

Deny Self for Self's sake

The only thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.

Follow the three R's: 1. Respect for self. 2. Respect for others. 3. Responsibility for all your actions.

It is good to be helpful and kindly, but don't give yourself to be melted into candle grease for the benefit of the tallow trade.

Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.

In the battle that is philosophy all the techniques of war, including looting and camouflage, are permissible.

All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosopher, which is to solve the problem of value, to determine the true hierarchy of values.

No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.

Science by itself has no moral dimension. But it does seek to establish truth. And upon this truth morality can be built.

Science cannot resolve moral conflicts, but it can help to more accurately frame the debates about those conflicts.

Scientific progress makes moral progress a necessity; for if man's power is increased, the checks that restrain him from abusing it must be strengthened

Science cannot stop while ethics catches up - and nobody should expect scientists to do all the thinking for the country

If you sow seeds of dishonor, unfaithfulness, dishonesty today you will reap the same tomorrow.