Quotes About Ethics

Silence becomes cowardice when occasion demands speaking out the whole truth and acting accordingly.

Nonviolence and truth (Satya) are inseparable and presuppose one another. There is no god higher than truth.

Seven Deadly Sins Wealth without work Pleasure without conscience Science without humanity Knowledge without character Politics without principle Commerce without morality Worship without sacrifice.

To my mind, the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being.

I abhor vivisection with my whole soul. All the scientific discoveries stained with innocent blood I count as of no consequence.

The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.

Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need, but not every man's greed.

Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary.

Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality.

Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.

Morality is contraband in war.

Are creeds such simple things like the clothes which a man can change at will and put on at will? Creeds are such for which people live for ages and ages.

The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly. The soul must languish when we give all our thought to the body.

There is a sufficiency in the world for man's need but not for man's greed.

Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been know to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.

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

My religion is based on truth and non-violence. Truth is my God. Non-violence is the means of realising Him.

Truth never damages a cause that is just.

I will far rather see the race of man extinct than that we should become less than beasts by making the noblest of God's creation, woman, the object of our lust.

Before the throne of the Almighty, man will be judged not by his acts but by his intentions. For God alone reads our hearts.

There is no principle worth the name if it is not wholly good.

All humanity is one undivided and indivisible family, and each one of us is responsible for the misdeeds of all the others. I cannot detach myself from the wickedest soul.

Para Aristóteles, el poder, la riqueza y las amistades eran los tres elementos que constituían la felicidad de una persona.