Quotes About Ethics

For they, the philosophers, were considered teachers of right living, which is far more excellent, since to speak well belongs only to a few, but to live well belongs to all.

Clergymen almost necessarily fail in two ways as teachers of morals. They condemn acts which do no harm and they condone acts which do great harm.

What is a good man but a bad man's teacher? What is a bad man but a good man's job? If you do not remember this, You will get lost, No matter how intelligent you are. It is the great secret.

War is a dangerous teacher and physical victory leads often to a moral defeat.

Why did the 14-year old Mexican girl end up pregnant? Because her teacher told her to go do an essay.

In their struggle for the ethical good, teachers of religion must have the stature to give up the doctrine of a personal god.

Really great moral teachers never do introduce new moralities: it is quacks and cranks who do that.

Let every man consider virtue as what devolves on himself. He may not yield the performance of it even to his teacher.

What is a good man? A teacher of a bad man. What is a bad man? A good man's charge?

It is remarkable that among all the preachers there are so few moral teachers. The prophets are employed in excusing the ways of men.

Teachers of science in schools and colleges must be masters of the tools for ensuring integrity in science and must instill them in their students.

Teacher preparation should go beyond the technical preparation of teachers and be rooted in the ethical formation both of selves and of history.

I was taught from a young age that as a teacher, especially a male, you are to never be alone with a female, or even a male student.

I hate it when something I've had published "inspires" some nut to imitate what I've written, or some teacher gets fired for having her students read one of my stories or novels.

Practicing what you preach is the world's most eloquent sermon.

A true leader is still a leader even when he takes up servants' duty, provided he maintains a human face and added integrity to his self-retained qualities.

Science is but a perversion of itself unless it has as its ultimate goal the betterment of humanity.

Technology is not neutral. We're inside of what we make, and it's inside of us. We're living in a world of connections — and it matters which ones get made and unmade.

All technology should be assumed guilty until proven innocent

I think we can allow the therapeutic uses of nuclear transplant technology, which we call cloning, without running the danger of actually having live human beings born.

The most exciting breakthroughs of the 21st century will not occur because of technology but because of an expanding concept of what it means to be human.

Among Gandhi's best-known pronouncements on industrial capitalism are these famous lines written in 1928: "God forbid that India should ever take to industrialism after the manner of the West. If an entire nation of 300 millions [sic] took to similar economic exploitation, it would strip the world bare like locusts.

Oh shame on you, who call yourself a Christian! Do you not see that it is the grossest idolatry to speak of the market as though it were the rival of God?

How do you fight an enemy who fights from neither enmity nor anger but in submission to orders from superiors, without protest and without conscience?