The Ethics Quotes

Respect is what we owe; love, what we give.

Just as white light consists of colored rays, so reverence for life contains all the components of ethics: love, kindliness, sympathy, empathy, peacefulness and power to forgive.

Action indeed is the sole medium of expression for ethics.

Whenever governments adopt a moral tone - as opposed to an ethical one - you know something is wrong.

Ethics is the new competitive environment

Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons.

Nothing is less important than which fork you use. Etiquette is the science of living. It embraces everything. It is ethics. It is honor.

Moral crusaders with zeal but no ethical understanding are likely to give us solutions that are worse than the problems.

Ethics, decency and morality are the real soldiers

A system of morality that is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception that has nothing sound in it and nothing true.

Dangerous consequences will follow when politicians and rulers forget moral principles. Whether we believe in God or karma, ethics is the foundation of every religion.

Good and evil both increase at compound interest.

To be an ethical leader is indeed to be different. This kind of leader acknowledges the complexity of running a responsible business, yet tries to do it anyway.

Our treatment of animals, in every department, is deeply and systematically immoral. Becoming a vegetarian is only the most minimal ethical response to the magnitude of the evil.

As our own species is in the process of proving, one cannot have superior science and inferior morals. The combination is unstable and self-destroying.

In a world where profit is consistently put before both people and the planet, climate economics has everything to do with ethics and morality.

There are no "standards of Right". Ethics is balderdash. Each Star must go on its own orbit. To hell with "moral principle"; there is no such thing.

An adult is a child who has more ethics and morals.

Have we fallen into a mesmerized state that makes us accept as inevitable that which is inferior or detrimental, as though having lost the will or the vision to demand that which is good?

Wrong is wrong only when you are at liberty to choose.

All a man can betray is his conscience.

Ethics change with technology.

Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess.

What has changed in 40 years? It’s very simple: 40 years ago there was a market economy. Today there is a market society – today everything, including ethics, has a price.

Satan mostly employs comparatively moral instruments and the language of ethics to give his aims an air of respectability.

All concerns of men go wrong when they wish to cure evil with evil.

Animal factories are one more sign of the extent to which our technological capacities have advanced faster than our ethics.

To be ethical is to endeavor to find one's proper place in the larger scheme of things rather than to seek to assert human superiority over the natural world.

Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind.

If it comes down to your ethics vs. a job, choose ethics. You can always find another job.

Relativity applies to physics, not ethics.

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

Morality is only moral when it is voluntary.

Life is the sum of your choices.

You can never control how people respond to your work. You can only control your own work ethic.

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

History shows that where ethics and economics come in conflict, victory is always with economics.

True education does not consist merely in the acquiring of a few facts of science, history, literature, or art, but in the development of character.

Ethics, like natural selection, make existence possible. Aesthetics, like sensual selection, make life lovely and wonderful, fill it with new forms, and give it progress, and variety and change.

If one doesn't respect oneself one can have neither love nor respect for others.

For those who are always courteous and respectful of elders, four things increase: life, beauty, happiness and strength.

Faith does not offer a strong link between our beliefs and actual states of the world.

You cannot advocate decency and ethics, you must design the conditions that eliminate the problems. In scarcity, people will tend to steal. If you make things available, people tend not to steal.

It appears, then, that ethics, as a branch of knowledge, is nothing more than a department of psychologyand sociology.

The real problem is in the hearts and minds of men. It is not a problem of physics but of ethics. It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.

Do not be a magician - be magic!

In philosophy, or religion, or ethics, or politics, two and two might make five, but when one was designing a gun or an aeroplane they had to make four.

Ethics and aesthetics are one.

Divorced from ethics, leadership is reduced to management and politics to mere technique.

I am fully aware that everybody has a right to succeed, and success should be with ethics.