Quotes About Ethics

Architect: Someone who knows the difference between that which could be done and that which should be done.

To the totality of purposes of the perfect Law there belong the abandonment, depreciation, and restraint of desires in so far as possible.

Justice is the firm and continuous desire to render to everyone that which is his due.

Good means not [merely] not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.

The discipline of desire is the background of character.

The most significant life is the one lived on the basis of a personal sense of justice and the desire to see justice realized everywhere.

When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire . . .

Temperance is a disposition that restrains our desires for things which it is base to desire.

The real purpose of the martial arts must be to purge oneself of petty ambitions and desire, to obtain control of one's own character.

You feel the intense desire to do good, to do right thing. At this stage, you also feel helpless.

The end justifies the means only when the means used are such as actually bring about the desired and desirable end.

Do not impose on others what you yourself do not desire.

Desire of praise disposeth to laudable actions.

If what the heart approves conforms to proper patterns, then even if one's desires are many, what harm would they be to good order?

Integrity, or the lack of it, touches almost every facet of our lives-everything we say, every thought and desire.

The law is reason unaffected by desire.

Often devotion to virtue arises from sated desire.

The desire of reward is one of the strongest incentives of human conduct; ... the best security for the fidelity of mankind is to make their interest coincide with their duty.

No one who desires to become good will become good unless he does good things.

The gentleman desires to be halting in speech but quick in action.

Virtue is the desire of things honourable and the power of attaining them.

My ruthless desire to win at all costs served me well on the bike but the level it went to, for whatever reason, is a flaw. That desire, that attitude, that arrogance.

Whatever we, as prospective participants unaware of our specific features, would desire society to be like is what, morally speaking, we ought to institute.

Because monks come from the midst of purity, they consider as good and pure what does not arouse desire among other people.