Quotes About Ethics

It is a luxury to put our interests first. It is an honor to put the interests of others before our own.

The government in which I believe is that which is based on mere moral sanction...the real law lives in the kindness of our hearts. If our hearts are empty, no law or political reform can fill them.

It is better to act right than seek right.

Kindness is not entered onto the great ledger of civilisation.

Your wealth or status doesn't make you. Your kindness and character does.

Do the Good to Bad then Bad will do Good to you

Kindness isn't so difficult, when the object is worthy.

Right action is better than knowledge; but in order to do what is right, we must know what is right.

Knowledge is no guarantee of good behavior, but ignorance is a virtual guarantee of bad behavior.

Four things will shame the students of knowledge: Criticizing people, praising themselves, not teaching the knowledge,and not practicing what they know.

There is no difference between knowledge and temperance; for he who knows what is good and embraces it, who knows what is bad and avoids it, is learned and temperate.

In order to stave off covetouness, greed, and spite, citizens world over must be educated.

The character of a nurse is just as important as the knowledge he/she possesses.

When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals. He has nerve and he has knowledge.

It is not enough to know what is good: you must be able to do it.

Knowledge has outstripped character development, and the young today are given an education rather than an upbringing.

An impersonal and scientific knowledge of the structure of our bodies is the surest safeguard against prurient curiosity and lascivious gloating.

The essential thing is not knowledge, but character.

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

Integrity is congruence between what you know, what you profess, and what you do.

A scientist who is also a human being cannot rest while knowledge which might be used to reduce suffering rests on the shelf.

El corazón de los hombres, al contrario que su piel, no tiene diferentes colores. O tiene grandeza o no la tiene, nada más

la línea divisoria entre la barbarie y la civilización nunca es una frontera geográfica entre diferentes países, sino una frontera moral dentro de cada pueblo; es más, dentro de cada individuo».

A country is known by the way it treats its animals.