Quotes About Ethics

A clergyman is one who feels himself called upon to live without working at the expense of the rascals who work to live.

All sects are different, because they come from men; morality is everywhere the same, because it comes from God.

Men are equal it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.

One of the chief misfortunes of honest people is that they are cowardly.

The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.

T]o remain in a continually exalted moral condition is not human nature.

How can you not help having sex with someone?

It's morally wrong to allow a sucker to keep his money.

Epictetus said: The road to hell is paved with good intentions.

The development of good character is a battle that you, I, and everyone must fight for himself. But victory can be ours.

The world has become a better place in which to live because of persons who have made it a habit to try to do the right thing only because it was right.

Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.

four basic causes of failure: sex, alcohol, deception, and stealing.

He wanted a race of men who would no longer depend upon free will, ethics, morals or conscience for guidance. Perhaps, without quite realizing it, Marx was setting out to create a race of human beings conditioned to think like criminals.

Communism undertakes to replace Judaic-Christian morals with a complete absence of morals.

Legislation in Violation of God's Natural Law Is a Scourge To Humanity

Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters.

I venture to maintain that there are multitudes to whom the necessity of discharging the duties of a butcher would be so inexpressibly painful and revolting, that if they could obtain a flesh diet on no other condition, they would relinquish it forever.

Whenever there is fear, you will get wrong figures.

Schools of business responded to popular demand for finance and creative accounting. The results are decline.

The pay and privilege of the captains of industry are now so closely linked to the quarterly dividend that they may find it personally unrewarding to do what is right for the company.

Let us honour if we can The vertical man Though we value none But the horizontal one.

Let us honor if we canThe vertical manThough we value noneBut the horizontal one.

Literary confessors are contemptible, like beggars who exhibit their sores for money, but not so contemptible as the public that buys their books.