Quotes About Ethics

As through this world I rambled I've seen lots of funny men. Some will rob you with a six-gun And some with a fountain pen.

Buddhism is a beautiful philosophy, but above all, it is about action.

A wicked man's gift hath a touch of his Master.

It's like those Christians that say that if there wasn't a God they'd be out there robbing, raping, and murdering folks. If that's true, and the only reason they aren't out committing crimes is because they're afraid to go to hell, then they aren't really good people.

I hope that my sons will live with honor in a world that is not afraid to use such a word and respect such a concept.

One can only blaspheme if one believes.

Goodness is easier to recognize than to define.

You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.

A lot of money is tainted - Taint yours and taint mine.

An ambassador should study the welfare of his country, and not spend his time in feasting and riot.

One may as well go, as look into another man's house; because the eye may reach what the hand cannot.

Homer and Hesiod attributed to the gods everything that is a shame and a reproach among men.

It appears to me that not only what is done by honourable and virtuous men in the serious transactions of life is worthy of record, but also what they do in their hours of amusement.

To enjoy objects of our affection by force appears to be more like the act of a robber than that of a lover.

Agriculture for an honorable and high-minded man, is the best of all occupations and arts by which men procure the means of living.

People often say what is right and do what is wrong; but nobody can be in the wrong if he is doing what is right.

If you consider what are called the virtues in mankind, you will find their growth is assisted by education and cultivation.

I made my people understand the crucial difference between modesty and self-control. The modest person, I told them, will do nothing blameworthy in the light of day, but a true paragon of self-control—which we all should strive to be—avoids unworthy actions even in the deepest secrecy of his private life.

Misleaders are slow to work hard but quick to act on greed. They convince their men that dishonest behavior leads to great wealth.

Most of us are always trying to increase our wealth, but you and your officers seem far more concerned with perfecting your souls.

The corrupt heart breaketh out by the lewd tongue.

In hunting on cultivated grounds, the huntsman must abstain from injuring the fruits of the season, and must leave springs and streams undisturbed; for to interfere with these is contrary to propriety and morality.

But what so different of eating plants? Everything has it's life. If you are so pure, why not just stop eating? So you can have no shit?

In China we believe "rob the rich to feed the poor." But robbers here have no poetry.