Quotes About Ethics

The most altruistic and sustainable philosophies fail before the brute brain stem imperative of self-interest.

Philosophy is the art of living.

The promise of business is to increase the general well-being of humankind through service, a creative invention and ethical philosophy.

You may have a beautiful philosophy, you may have lofty ideals, but what you will do with your philosophy and ideals is dependent entirely upon what you are inside yourself

Knowledge of our duties is the most essential part of the philosophy of life. If you escape duty you avoid action. The world demands results.

Those who grant sympathy to guilt, grant none to innocence.

The discovery of what is true and the practice of that which is good are the two most important aims of philosophy.

Injustice upon earth renders the justice of of heaven impossible.

A man must not be without shame, for the shame of being without shame is shamelessness indeed.

Let animals live like animals; let humans live like humans. That's my whole philosophy in a sentence.

Never judge a philosophy by its abuse.

Happiness is not the end of life: character is.

The pretended physical philosophy of modern days strips Man of all his moral attributes, or holds them of no account in the estimate of his origin and place in the created world.

Since philosophy is the art which teaches us how to live, and since children need to learn it as much as we do at other ages, why do we not instruct them in it?

Your woodlot is, in fact, an historical document which faithfully records your personal philosophy.

Morally and philosophically I find myself in agreement with virtually the whole of it: and not only in agreement with it, but in deeply moved agreement.

How can you qualify the difference between a sin and a lie.

I will not allow the Athenians to sin twice against philosophy.

I remain instinctively hostile to communitarian philosophy and communitarian politics.

Without philosophy, action has no meaning.

If you would enjoy real freedom, you must be the slave of Philosophy.

There can be no progress-real, moral prgress-except in the individual and by the individual himself.

American life is builded ... upon that fundamental philosophy announced by the Savior nineteen centuries ago ... [It] can not survive with the defense of Cain, "Am I my brother's keeper?

Philosophy, to be relevant, must offer us a wisdom to live by.