Quotes About Ethics

Counsel involving right and wrong should never be sought from a man who does not say his prayers.

The search for moral guidance which shall not depend upon external authority has invariably ended in the acknowledgment of some new authority.

Man should strive to be a gentleman in a barbaric world, merciful in a merciless time and humane in an inhumane culture.

Morality is not properly the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.

Sound morals, religious liberty, and a just sense of religious responsibility are essentially connected with all true and lasting happiness.

Justice is happiness according to virtue.

Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness; wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure and the absence of pain.

We can't have happiness if we cause others unhappiness.

I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.

Neither the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws will secure the liberty and happiness of a people whose manners are universally corrupt.

Recommend to your children virtue; that alone can make them happy, not gold.

I consider a good reputation is a great part of the human happiness. Some people, if they are very, very rich can permit themselves certain negligence to their reputations.

Happiness is the reward of virtue.

I was thinking that surgeons had to be the happiest people on earth. To cut people up and get paid for it-that's happiness, I told myself.

Reason shows me that if my happiness is desirable and good, the equal happiness of any other person must be equally desirable.

If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him.

He who, seeking his own happiness, punishes or kills beings who also long for happiness, will not find happiness after his death.

Wealth and poverty do not lie in a man's estate, but in men's souls.

The ultimate destiny of the human race is the greatest moral perfection, provided that it is achieved through human freedom, whereby alone man is capable of the greatest happiness.

Never forget - happiness ends when selfishness begins.

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.

Be in general virtuous, and you will be happy.

Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

The measure of the moral worth of a man is his happiness. The better the man, the more happiness. Happiness is the synonym of well-being