Quotes About Ethics

Neutral men are the devil's allies.

Goodness consists not in the outward things we do, but in the inward thing we are. To be is the great thing.

When private virtue is hazarded on the perilous cast of expediency, the pillars of the republic, however apparent their stability, are infected with decay at the very centre.

Whatever touches the nerves of motive, whatever shifts man's moral position, is mightier than steam, or calorie, or lightening.

The beauty of doing business with a crook is that he always forgives you for catching him, so long as you don't stop doing business with him.

The beauty of doing business with a crook is that he always forgives you for catching him, so long as you don't stop doing business with him.

Wall Street professionals know that acting on "inside" tips will break a man more quickly than famine, pestilence, crop failures, political readjustments or what might be called normal accidents. There is no asphalt boulevard to success in Wall Street or anywhere else. Why additionally block traffic?

The Ten Commandments have never been replaced as the moral basis upon which society rests.

We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life.

You can have malice towards other life forms other than humans. This, though somewhat contentious, could be said to be involved when eating animal products. Why? Anyone eating them is only doing so out of desire rather than need and this desire involves the doing of harm.

To eat meat in a world where it is not required for sustenance is to do so out of malice. To consume any animal product purely for your own pleasure is to do so out of greed and arrogance.

confirmed Lincoln's view that

Those who wish to pet and baby wild animals "love" them. But those who respect their natures and wish to let them live normal lives, love them more.

It is morally as bad not to care whether a thing is true or not, so long as it makes you feel good, as it is not to care how you got your money as long as you have got it.

Those who wish to pet and baby wild animals "love" them. But those who respect their natures and wish to let them live normal lives, love them more.

Quelli con il pelo sullo stomaco che pensano a lungo prima di addormentarsi non riescono mai a essere cattivi.

If you reveal the fact that selfish principles control your life and character…your destiny will be decided, and you will be left outside the kingdom of God.

A cheap-minded stays cheap, even after having a high position.

A conscientious slave is a thousand times greater than a conscienceless free person.

A leader's moral responsibility is, to show the straight way; however, it lies up to the follower, how and when it adopts accordingly and sincerely that.

A leader's moral responsibility is, to show the straight way; however, it lies upon the follower, how and when it adopts, accordingly and sincerely that.

A legal injustice in the juristic context is the terrible crime and cruelty than conventional crime and cruelty.

A murderer is not only the criminal by earthy law; it is also the sinner of God's teachings.

A personal attack outlines as a moral corruption and even shows behavioural violation and crime.