Quotes About Ethics

One man cannot do right in one department of life whilst he is occupied in doing wrong in any other department. Life is one indivisible whole

What to one man is the virtue which he has sunk below the possibility of aspiring to, is to another the backsliding by which he forfeits his spiritual crown.

Thinking well is integral to acting righteously. Truth and spirituality are of a piece: to know the truth is to do it. There is no dichotomy between the two. To be spiritual is to know/do the truth.

As morality seems to have supplanted civilization, I move on to the spiritual.

Democracy is a form of government only because it is a form of moral and spiritual association.

the conspicuous consumption of limited resources has yet to be accepted widely as a spiritual error, or even bad manners

Today, some of the most spiritual people I know claim to be without religion.

Today, society is sacrificing love, values and dharma in its pursuit of materialistic gains.

I've come to the realization that a lot of our problems are because of a dearth of spiritual values.

Even secular humanism has great spiritual resources; it is almost like a religion to me.

Ethical existence [is] the highest manifestation of spirituality.

The state accumulates moral power only through the spiritual activity of their citizens.

There is nothing you can do to assuage your conscience when you commit sins. Crime is a spiritual assault on the soul.

Many men can no more be kept straight by spiritual motives than we can live without policemen.

It is always so much easier to be moral than it is to be spiritual.

I don't have any spiritual anything.You shoot a guy with a gun, he dies. You step on a bug, the bug dies. There is no heaven for me and no hell. And certainly not any Karma.

... a less than perfect meddling in the spiritual world can breed monsters for other people.

I don't think of spiritual principle as a struggle. I think of life lived without spiritual principles as a struggle.

For the poor, the economic is spiritual.

Equal justice under law is a spiritual as well as a civic principle.

I had a very moral upbringing, and spiritual in a sort of not very specific way.

Anything that comes from the cow, a little milk, butter, cheese, is alright for the spiritual aspirant. There is no harm to the cow, and it is of benefit to take it.

What really pleases the Spiritual Master is our intent and the quality of our character.

When people lose faith in the natural goodness of the human character, the lack of trust in spiritual goodness, that is one reason why corruption has become so widespread today.