Quotes on Moral Ethics

Relativity applies to physics, not ethics.

The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal is integrity.

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

He therefore is the truest friend to the liberty of his country who tries most to promote its virtue, and who, so far as his power and influence extend, will not suffer a man to be chosen into any office of power and trust who is not a wise and virtuous man.

Integrity is the essence of everything successful.

The great pillars of all government and of social life [are] virtue, morality, and religion. This is the armor, my friend, and this alone, that renders us invincible.

Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.

No one can be happy who has been thrust outside the pale of truth. And there are two ways that one can be removed from this realm: by lying, or by being lied to.

Necessity may well be called the mother of invention but calamity is the test of integrity.

Integrity is not something that grownups have and adolescents can aspire to. Integrity is something that all of us, at all ages, are constantly striving for.

If thou wouldst rule well, thou must rule for God, and to do that, thou must be ruled by him. Those who will not be governed by God will be ruled by tyrants.

A man's ethical behaviour should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.

Man would indeeded be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.

A single lie destroys a whole reputation for integrity.

Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.

The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.

Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself.

Even the most rational approach to ethics is defenseless if there isn't the will to do what is right.

I am sure that in estimating every man's value either in private or public life, a pure integrity is the quality we take first into calculation, and that learning and talents are only the second.

A little integrity is better than any career.

The meaning of good and bad, of better and worse, is simply helping or hurting.