Quotes About Ethics

You cannot make men good by law: and without good men you cannot have a good society.

To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

We must not inflict life on children who will be resented; we must not inflict unwanted children on society.

A society regulated by a public sense of justice is inherently stable.

Corporations are social institutions. If they don't serve society, they have no business existing

You can tell all you need to about a society from how it treats animals and beaches.

MISDEMEANOR, n. An infraction of the law having less dignity than a felony and constituting no claim to admittance into the best criminal society.

When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society.

A lawyer is either a social engineer or he is a parasite on society.

Society doesn't have values. People have values.

Society is defined not only by what it creates, but by what it refuses to destroy.

Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.

You are personally responsible for becoming more ethical than the society you grew up in.

You meet saints everywhere. They can be anywhere. They are people behaving decently in an indecent society.

If we want to move towards a low-polluting, sustainable society, we need to get consumers to think about their purchases.

A society which permits anything will eventually lose everything.

A society that is not willing to demand a life of somebody who has taken somebody else's life is simply immoral.

To inflict cruelties on defenceless creatures, or condone such acts, is to abuse one of the cardinal tenets of a civilized society - reverence for life.

Whoever commits a fraud is guilty not only of the particular injury to him who he deceives, but of the diminution of that confidence which constitutes not only the ease but the existence of society.

The fetus is the property of the entire society.

If there is no absolute by which to judge society, society is absolute.

Everyone in society should be a role model, not only for their own self-respect, but for respect from others.

Suppress prostitution, and capricious lusts will overthrow society.

The truly free person in society is a disciplined person.