Ethics Quotes

It's daft, locking us up," said Nanny. "I'd have had us killed.""That's because you're basically goo...

I would rather go out of politics having the feeling that I had done what was right than stay in wit...

We colour and mould according to the wants within us whatever our eyes bring in.

High Europe always played at ethnic contempt because it was High Europe, and so had the strength, th...

It is reasonable that everyone who asks justice should do justice

It is even so in a commonwealth and in the councils of princes; if ill opinions cannot be quite root...

The media "could not be policed from without and had to be policed from within.

Whether a man is a criminal or a public servant is purely a matter of perspective.

An educated, healthy & confident nation is harder to govern

... luckily, Eden is soon populated. The ethical dimension begins when the other appears on the scen...

The law of evolution is that the strongest survives!' 'Yes, and the strongest, in the existence of a...

War as a moral metaphor is limited, limiting, and dangerous. By reducing the choices of action to “a...

. . . chronosophy does involve ethics. Because our sense of time involves our ability to separate ca...

For we each of us deserve everything, every luxury that was ever piled in the tombs of the dead king...

Both those taking snaps and documentary photographers, however, have not understood 'information.' W...

The task of a philosophy of photography is to reflect upon this possibility of freedom - and thus it...

Even a purely moral act that has no hope of any immediate and visible political effect can gradually...

It is pleasure that lurks in the practice of every one of your virtues. Man performs actions because...

No more semblance or disemblance, no more God or Man, only an immanent logic of the principle of ope...

He that doth not as other men do, but endeavoureth that which ought to be done, shall thereby rather...

All, or the greatest part of men that have aspired to riches or power, have attained thereunto eithe...

He that doth not as other men do, but endeavoureth that which ought to be done, shall thereby rather...

All, or the greatest part of men that have aspired to riches or power, have attained thereunto eithe...

He that doth not as other men do, but endeavoureth that which ought to be done, shall thereby rather...

All, or the greatest part of men that have aspired to riches or power, have attained thereunto eithe...

He that doth not as other men do, but endeavoureth that which ought to be done, shall thereby rather...

All, or the greatest part of men that have aspired to riches or power, have attained thereunto eithe...

The notion that human life has greater value than any other form of life is both unjustifiable and a...

And again, though we cannot prove, we feel, that we are deathless. We perceive that life is not like...

A truth that's told with bad intent - beats all the lies you can invent.

He who would do good to another must do it in minute particulars: general good is the plea of the sc...

Only that which does not teach which does not cry out which does not condescend which does not ex...

No one is without Christianity, if we agree on what we mean by the word. It is every individual's in...

The moral is that the shape of a society must depend on the ethical nature of the individual and not...

The most popular form of atheism is a philosophy called naturalism. Naturalism is the view that scie...

To say that the holocaust was objectively wrong, is to say that the holocaust was wrong even though ...

By setting such strong, harsh dichotomies God taught Israel that any assimilation to pagan idolatry ...

I think that a good start at this problem is to enunciate our ethical theory that underlies our mora...

Something is objective if it is independent of people’s opinions. If it holds or is true independent...

...The happy Warrior... is he... who, with a natural instinct to discern what knowledge can perform,...

There are two types of people in this world, good and bad. The good sleep better, but the bad seem t...

But for this book we could not know right from wrong.

Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of con...

The great source of both the misery and disorders of human life, seems to arise from over-rating the...

I have always believed that a trademark is the life of an enterprise and that it must be protected b...

I have always believed that atrademark is the life of an enterpriseand that it must be protected bol...

It is now an easy matter to spell out the ethic of a truth: 'Do all that you can to persevere in tha...

There is always only one question in the ethics of truth: how will I, as some-one, continue to excee...

Plato in both the Gorgias and the Republic looked back to Socrates and asserted that "it is better t...

History is neither a prison nor a museum, nor is it a set of materials for self-congratulation.

To call the Form [of the Good] eternal is misleading: that something lasts forever does not render i...

The introduction of the word ‘intuition’ by a moral philosopher is always a signal that something ha...

Whenever those immersed in the bureaucratic culture of the age try to think their way through to the...

If there were a party of those who aren't sure they're right, I'd belong t

If there were a party of those who aren't sure they're right, I'd belong to it.

I do not believe in the immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively hu...

A man's ethical behaviour should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and ne...

Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight.

Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it emb...

Until he extends the circle of his compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace.

A man does not have to be an angel in order to be a saint.

The thinking (person) must oppose all cruel customs, no matter how deeply rooted in tradition and su...

Very little of the great cruelty shown by men can really be attributed to cruel instinct. Most of it...

The thinking man must oppose all cruel customs, no matter how deeply rooted in tradition and surroun...

The fundamental principle of morality which we seek as a necessity for thought is not, however, a ma...

The practices we now call conservation are, to a large extent, local alleviations of biotic pain. Th...

My paper was a direct discussion and comparison of half-a-dozen ethical systems, concentrating on wh...

What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then and there happen to like ...

The three wealthiest people in the world own more than the GDP of forty-eight countries!

It isn't the evil and indecent who are flung down into the depths, no! Oh, no! The evil and decisive...

The single word that directs a person’s fate and ultimately the fates of those she comes in contact ...

Every skill and every inquiry, and similarly every action and rational choice, is thought to aim at ...

It is impossible, or not easy, to alter by argument what has long been absorbed by habit

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who overcomes his enemies.

Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies, for the hardest vict...

The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he c...

Nor is he liberal who gives with pain; for he would prefer the wealth to the noble act, and this is ...

It is well said, then, that it is by doing just acts that the just man is produced, and by doing tem...

Now to exert oneself and work for the sake of amusement seems silly and utterly childish. But to amu...

One can with but moderate possessions do what one ought.

Life in accordance with intellect is best and pleasantest, since this, more than anything else, cons...

Happiness seems to depend on leisure, because we work to have leisure, and wage war to live in peace...

Neither by nature, then, nor contrary to nature do the virtues arise in us; rather we are adapted by...

[T]hese leaders must not believe they are actually being watched, for their behavior in no way refle...

Satan, on the contrary, is thin, ascetic and a fanatical devotee of logic. He reads Machiavelli, Ign...

Now this was possible only by a man determining himself entirely *rationally* according to concepts,...

In conformity with this spirit and aim of the Stoa, Epictetus begins with it and constantly returns ...

How is it possible that suffering that is neither my own nor of my concern should immediately affect...

Boundless compassion for all living beings is the surest and most certain guarantee of pure moral co...

The search for scapegoats is essentially an abnegation of responsibility: it indicates an inability ...

Every dictator is a mystic, and every mystic is a potential dictator. A mystic craves obedience from...

I'm not asking you to do your best. I'm asking you to do your job." -Dagny Taggart

Hence the sterile, uninspiring futility of a great many theoretical discussions of ethics, and the r...

Observe how many people evade, rationalize and drive their minds into a state of blind stupor, in dr...

But of all the deadly theories by means of which you are now being destroyed, I would like to warn y...

But when our elected officials and our political campaign become entirely untethered to reason and f...

Eating is a genuine need, continuous from our first day to our last, amounting over time to our most...

All laws which can be violated without doing any one any injury are laughed at. Nay, so far are they...

those, who are believed to be most self—abased and humble, are generally in reality the most ambitio...