Quotes About Ethics

Ethics knows no party. Those rules should be applied the same in a Republican administration and a Democratic administration.

Our party is not like the Congress, where leaders are more important than the party and ethics. In our party, people and workers are more important than leaders.

It's impossible, we have too much ethics to ask someone to attack another. We do not attack, we defend ourselves from attacks. We have been attacked a lot.

I try not to think about it as much when I'm working, it's more just doing my job, but I realize I have more of a responsibility than probably your everyday analyst.

An atheist has value only if this person is perfectly ethical.

Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.

Obeying orders just to obey is the mark of a person who has ceased to think. Remember, it is better to suffer for doing what is right rather than for doing what is wrong.

But sticking to rules just because they're there does not make them right. You need to learn when the rules should be broken.

If we cannot live so as to be happy, let us at least live so as to deserve it.

So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.

In law, a man is guilty when he violates the rights of another. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so.

Morality is not really the doctrine of how to make ourselves happy but of how we are to be worthy of happiness

May you live your life as if the maxim of your actions were to become universal law.

There is, therefore, only one categorical imperative. It is: Act only according to that maxim by which you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law.

Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: 'War is bad in that it begets more evil than it kills.'

Out of wood so crooked and perverse as that which man is made of, nothing absolutely straight can ever be wrought.

It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.

There is… only a single categorical imperative and it is this: Act only on that maxim through which you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law.

All the interests of my reason, speculative as well as practical, combine in the three following questions: 1. What can I know? 2. What ought I to do? 3. What may I hope?

From timber so crooked as that from which man is carved, nothing entirely straight can be made.

The enjoyment of power inevitably corrupts the judgment of reason, and perverts its liberty.

Act in such a way that you treat humanity, whether in your own person or in the person of any other, never merely as a means to an end, but always at the same time as an end.

Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the more often and steadily we reflect upon them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me. I do not seek or conjecture either of them as if they were veiled obscurities or extravagances beyond the horizon of my vision; I see them before me and connect them immediately with the consciousness of my existence.

Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of few; and number not voices, but weigh them.