Quotes About Ethics

Whoever is just willingly and without compulsion will not lack happiness; he will never be utterly destroyed.

Happiness is a moral obligation

What has human happiness to do with morals? The object of morals is not to make people happy.

Happiness is prosperity combined with virtue.

You can get everything money will buy without a lick of character, but you can't get any of the things money won't buy: happiness, joy, peace of mind, winning relationships, etc., without character.

Happiness is a certain activity of soul in conformity with perfect goodness

Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.

Happiness is inseparably connected with decent, clean behavior.

Nothing is more injurious to the character and to the intellect than the suppression of a generous emotion.

Happiness, though an indefinite concept, is the goal of all rational beings

Purity of morals [is] the only sure foundation of public happiness in any country.

We pray that every field of science may contribute in bringing happiness - not disaster - to human beings.

If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence.

The word happiness is used to indicate at least three related things, which we might roughly call emotional happiness, moral happiness, and judgmental happiness.

If happiness, then, is activity expressing virtue, it is reasonable for it to express the supreme virtue, which will be the virtueof the best thing.

Religious belief is not a precondition either of ethical conduct or of happiness.

Happiness cannot be the reward of virtue; it must be the intelligible consequence of it.

The first and indispensable requisite of happiness is a clear conscience.

To be happy is not the purpose of our being, but to deserve happiness.

Happiness comes from theperfect practice of virtue.

Happiness is a sort of action.

May your mind be thoroughly impressed with the absolute necessity of universal virtue and goodness, as the only sure road to happiness, and may you walk therein with undeviating steps.

Our happiness often depends upon social hypocrisies to which we will never stoop.

Count all th' advantage prosperous Vice attains, 'Tis but what Virtue flies from and disdains: And grant the bad what happiness they would, One they must want--which is, to pass for good.