Quotes About Ethics

Plato said that virtue has no master. If a person does not honor this principle and rejoice in it, but is purchasable for money, he creates many masters for himself.

Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.

For, when with beauty we can virtue join, We paint the semblance of a form divine.

Donald Trump is not some great man of virtue, but this much I'll say for him: I think he loves America, and I don't think he wants to line his own pockets.

It is safest to be moderately base - to be flexible in shame, and to be always ready for what is generous, good, and just, when anything is to be gained by virtue.

I'm not saying I'm a paragon of virtue, but it's hard for me not to be honorable.

Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue.

Crime when it succeeds is called virtue.

Virtue alone has majesty in death.

Nothing in our times has become so unattractive as virtue.

Neither Left nor Right has a monopoly of virtue when it comes to smearing opponents.

Teach your daughters to walk in virtue.

It is necessary to make virtue fashionable.

Every act of virtue is an ingredient unto reward.

Because impudence is a vice, it does not follow that modesty is a virtue; it is built upon shame, a passion in our nature, and may be either good or bad according to the actions performed from that motive.

Extol Jewish virtue, modern Zionism and the Israeli Defense Forces.

When virtue is at liberty, so to some extent is vice.

This idea of selfishness as a virtue, as opposed to generosity: That, to me, is unnatural.

Too much virtue can be criminal.

I have pushed virtue to outright brutality.

Morality is a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue; its secondary stage, boredom; its tertiary stage, syphilis.

The better one is morally the less aware they are of their virtue.

All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.

Nobody should trust their virtue with necessity, the force of which is never known till it is felt, and it is therefore one of the first duties to avoid the temptation of it.