Quotes About Ethics

According to the law of nature it is only fair that no one should become richer through damages and injuries suffered by another.

Justice consists in doing no injury to men decency in giving them no offense.

Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

O philosophy, you leader of life.

A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all other virtues.

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

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

For there is but one essential justice which cements society, and one law which establishes this justice. This law is right reason, which is the true rule of all commandments and prohibitions. Whoever neglects this law, whether written or unwritten, is necessarily unjust and wicked.

Politicians are not born; they are excreted.

What is morally wrong can never be advantageous, even when it enables you to make some gain that you believe to be to your advantage. The mere act of believing that some wrongful course of action constitutes an advantage is pernicious.

It is a great thing to know your vices.

May the Architect be high-minded; not arrogant, but faithful; Just, and easy to deal with, without avarice; Not let his mind be occupied in receiving gifts, But let him preserve his good name with dignity...

Er zijn noodzakelijke en minder noodzakelijke zonden.

With us, love is just as punishable as murder or robbery…

Hunger is a powerful reorganizer of the conscience.

The Human moral keyboard is limited ... there's nothing you can play on it that hasn't been played before. And, my dear Friends, I am sorry to say this, but it has its lower notes.

Noble people don't do things for the money, they simply have money, and that's what allows they to be noble.

Stupidity is the same as evil if you judge by the results.

above all things; to remember that hypocrisy is the most hopeless as well as the meanest of crimes...

The stress laid on upward social mobility in the United States has tended to obscure the fact that there can be more than one kind of mobility and more than one direction in which it can go. There can be ethical mobility as well as financial, and it can go down as well as up.

You don't tell deliberate lies, but sometimes you have to be evasive.

Wherever you're working is where you take a stand. You don't have to go looking for new places, other issues, compelling causes.

Maybe selflessness was only selfishness on another level.