Quotes About Ethics

Virtue knows to a farthing what it has lost by not having been vice.

Of the unjust rights which in virtue of this ceremony an iniquitous law gives me over the person and property of another, I cannot legally, but I can morally, divest myself.

Virtue herself is her own fairest reward.

The rewards of virtue alone abide secure.

I'm really tired of virtue.

Empathy is a virtue, but it should not be a guiding judicial principle.

In the world in which we live, truth is an ancillary virtue, but it shouldn't be.

Everybody's part of the greater whole and skepticism and virtue are a part of that.

I'm an entertainer. I don't go round saying I'm a paragon of virtue, so that is clearly not in the public interest.

I've been deeply influenced by Aristotle's idea that virtue is a habit, something you practice and get better at, rather than something that comes naturally. 'The control of the appetites by right reason,' is how he defined it.

In this country, most people feel that being successful in their business is a virtue, not a vice, and once we begin to identify it as a vice, this country is going down.

Free speech may be a right, but only by using it as a force for good in the world do we make it a virtue.

In America, we have equated personal business success with public virtue.

'Character Doesn't Count' has become a de facto G.O.P. motto. 'Virtue Doesn't Matter' might be another. But character does count, and virtue does matter, and Trump's shortcomings prove it daily.

A deep concern of mine is that leaders in the technology sector have not developed a culture that insists upon courage, honor, duty, and humility - what we might call a culture of virtue.

When the norm is decency, other virtues can thrive: integrity, honesty, compassion, kindness, and trust.

If you're not going to be rewarded for your virtues, and instead you're going to be punished for them, then what's your motivation to continue?

The virtues are lost in self-interest as rivers are lost in the sea.

A few vices are sufficient to darken many virtues.

Someone may ask, 'How is justice greater than all the other virtues?' The other virtues gratify the one who possesses them; justice does not give pleasure to the one possessing it, but instead pleases others.

Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.

The virtues, like the Muses, are always seen in groups. A good principle was never found solitary in any breast.

Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues.

Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!