Quotes About Ethics

Self denial is the shining sore on the leprous body of Christianity.

Good taste is the excuse I've always given for leading such a bad life

One should always play fair when one has the winning cards.

What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.

The salesman knows nothing of what he is selling save that he is charging a great deal too much for it.

It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly.

About foxhunting: The unspeakable chasing the uneatable.

As long as war is regarded as wicked it will always have its fascinations. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.

Conscience and cowardice are really the same thing. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm.

Morality is simply the attitude we adopt toward people we personally dislike.

Newspapers have degenerated. They may now be absolutely relied upon.

Society produces rogues, and education makes one rogue cleverer than another.

The fact is, that civilization requires slaves. The Greeks were quite right there. Unless there are slaves to do the ugly, horrible, uninteresting work, culture, and contemplation become almost impossible. Human slavery is wrong, insecure, and demoralizing. On mechanical slavery, on the slavery of the machine, the future of the world depends.

There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

If you saw a dog going to be crushed under a car, wouldn't you help him?

Power is when you have every justification to kill someone, and then you don't.

Never look for justice in this world, never cease to give it.

Tolerating a wrong attitude toward another person causes you to follow the spirit of the devil, no matter how saintly you are.

Never look for justice in this world, but never cease to give it.

The Sermon on the Mount is not an ideal, it is a statement of what will happen in me when Jesus Christ has altered my disposition and put in a disposition like His own. Jesus Christ is the only One Who can fulfil the Sermon on the Mount.

Beware of surrender that is motivated by personal benefits that may result.

Never look for right in the other man, but never cease to be right yourself. We are always looking for justice; the teaching of the Sermon on the Mount is—Never look for justice, but never cease to give

No one is born either naturally or supernaturally with character; it must be developed.