Ethics Quotes
Ethics Quote of the day
Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.
Right is right, and wrong is wrong, and a body ain’t got no business doing wrong when he ain’t ignorant and knows better.
Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself.
The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.
I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies, for the hardest victory is over self.
There are two types of people in this world, good and bad. The good sleep better, but the bad seem to enjoy the waking hours much more.
Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.
An election is a moral horror as bad as a battle except for the blood a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.
I obviously do everything to be "hard to understand" myself
In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place.
Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience.
While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered beasts, how can we expect any ideal conditions on this earth?
Morality is the theory that every human act must be either right or wrong and that 99% of them are wrong.
I do not believe in the immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern without any superhuman authority behind it.
We have two kinds of morality side by side: one which we preach but do not practice and the other which we practice but seldom preach.
In the common world of fact the wicked were not punished, nor the good rewarded. Success was given to the strong, failure thrust upon the weak. That was all.
We have in fact, two kinds of morality, side by side: one which we preach, but do not practice, and another which we practice, but seldom preach.
No man is so exquisitely honest or upright in living but that ten times in his life he might not lawfully be hanged.
A man who wills commands something within himself that renders obedience, or that he believes renders obedience.
You've got to be brave and you've got to be bold. Brave enough to take your chance on your own discrimination - what's right and what's wrong what's good and what's bad.
What is morality but immemorial custom? Conscience is the chief of conservatives.
Having knowledge of an unethical act and allowing it to continue can spread a contagion that can affect multiple beings in society
You cannot receive a shock unless you have an electric affinity for that which shocks you.
I'm not asking you to do your best. I'm asking you to do your job." -Dagny Taggart
Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life. So aim above morality. Be not simply good be good for something.
One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.
The whole interest of my reason, whether speculative or practical, is concentrated in the three following questions: What can I know? What should I do? What may I hope? (Critique of Pure Reason
I would rather go out of politics having the feeling that I had done what was right than stay in with the approval of all men, knowing in my heart that I have acted as I ought not to.
Life in accordance with intellect is best and pleasantest, since this, more than anything else, constitutes humanity.
Happiness seems to depend on leisure, because we work to have leisure, and wage war to live in peace.
The good which every man, who follows after virtue, desires for himself he will also desire for other men...
Hatred is increased by being reciprocated, and can on the other hand be destroyed by love.
I have gained this by philosophy … I do without being ordered what some are constrained to do by their fear of the law.
The three wealthiest people in the world own more than the GDP of forty-eight countries!
Innocence is a splendid thing, only it has the misfortune not to keep very well and to be easily misled.
It is impossible to conceive anything at all in the world, or even out of it, which can be taken as good without qualification, except a good will.
