Quotes About Ethics

Whenever we do something good in life, even if no one is watching, we rise a little in our own eyes! Keep rising always.

Respectable character is developed by consistency in self discipline and self control.

Take time to search within, we all have the power to change and correct our mistake towards our life journey. List the things your conscience tells you that you are doing wrong, appreciate the finding within, then make amendment today and discover your inner power; your moral/ethics require personal growth.

It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.

Never esteem anything as of advantage to thee that shall make thee break thy word or lose thy self-respect.

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.

Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of few; and number not voices, but weigh them.

You do not wake up one morning a bad person. It happens by a thousand tiny surrenders of self-respect to self-interest.

Self-interest is but the survival of the animal in us. Humanity only begins for man with self-surrender.

Go against the rules if you must, but never go against your conscience, even if the rules demand it.

Integrity simply means a willingness not to violate one's identity.

We can really respect a man only if he doesn't always look out for himself

That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.

I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill.

The idea of a good society is something you do not need a religion and eternal punishment to buttress; you need a religion if you are terrified of death

It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world.

Ninety-nine percent of requested deaths go unrecorded. It's a secret crime.

He lives in fame that died in virtue's cause.

A civil servant doesn't make jokes

A book does not make bad jokes, drink too much or eat more than you can afford to pay for.

Philosophy is the science which considers truth

Vice may be learnt, even without a teacher

I decided to teach because I think that any person who studies philosophy has to be involved actively

Your tax dollars are being used to pay for grade school classes that teach our children that cannibalism, wife-swapping and the murder of infants and the elderly are acceptable behavior