Quotes About Ethics

one life, he had spared others anguish and deterred a descent into anarchy.

The aim of education is the knowledge not of facts but of values.

Deliberate cruelty to our defenceless and beautiful little cousins is surely one of the meanest and most detestable vices of which a human being can be guilty.

True faith is belief in the reality of absolute values.

The aim of education is the knowledge not of fact, but of values.

We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form.

We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form. ~William Ralph Inge

A politician will do anything to keep his job - even become a patriot.

You can crush a man with journalism.

My father taught me that reputation, not money, was the most important thing in the world.

This leads to the central dilemma of Fourth Generation war: what works for you on the physical (and sometimes mental) level often works against you at the moral level.

The right to do something does not mean that doing it is right.

The manner in which a man chooses to gamble indicates his character or his lack of it.

If you give to a thief he cannot steal from you, and he is then no longer a thief.

Cheat your landlord if you can and must, but do not try to shortchange the Muse. It cannot be done. You can't fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.

So cheat your landlord if you can and must, but do not try to shortchange the Muse. It cannot be done. You can't fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.

Honesty is the best policy. If I lose mine honor, I lose myself.

The robbed that smiles, steals something from the thief.

Pity is the virture of the law, and none but tyrants use it cruelly.

The purest treasure mortal times afford, is spotless reputation; that away, men are but gilded loam or painted clay.

How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good dead in a naughty world.

Conscience is a thousand swords.

Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues We write in water.

Virtue itself turns vice, being misapplied;And vice sometime's by action dignified.