Quotes About Ethics

Even to smile at the misfortunes of others is to do an injury.

We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.

No society can legitimately call itself civilized if a sick person is denied medical aid because of lack of means.

Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.

People in their natural state are basically good. But this natural innocence,however, is corrupted by the evils of society.

In today's society, looking good and feeling good often trumps doing good and being good. And some people don't know the difference anymore.

In any free society where terrible wrongs exist, some are guilty - all are responsible.

If the society today allows wrongs to go unchallenged, the impression is created that those wrongs have the approval of the majority.

Without God, there is no virtue because there is no prompting of the conscience... without God, there is a coarsening of the society; without God, democracy will not and cannot long endure.

We do not condemn it because it is a crime, but it is a crime because we condemn it.

Your own acts tell the world who you are and what kind of society you think it should be.

Man is a moral being, only because he lives in society. Let all social life disappear and morality will disappear with it.

The disappearance of a sense of responsibility is the most far-reaching consequence of submission to authority.

A society can be Pareto optimal and still perfectly disgusting.

To be just, it is not enough to refrain from injustice. One must go further and refuse to play its game, substituting love for self-interest as the driving force of society.

When you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice, you may know that your society is doomed

A society should be judged not by how it treats its outstanding citizens but by how it treats its criminals.

We do not accept that human society should be constructed on the basis of a savage principle of the survival of the fittest

When you understand your obligations to God then you can understand your obligations to society.

Religion and morality are the essential pillars of civil society.

All that is good is not embodied in the law; and all that is evil is not proscribed by the law. A well-disciplined society needs few laws; but it needs strong mores.

Mohammed praises [instances of] tretchery, inhumanity, cruelty, revenge, and bigotry that are utterly incompatible with civilized society.

There is too much animal courage in society and not sufficient moral courage.

FIFA stands for discipline, respect, fair-play, not just on the field of play, but in our society as well.