Quotes on Morality And 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.

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.

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

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.

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.

Ethics, too, are nothing but reverence for life. This is what gives me the fundamental principle of morality, namely, that good consists in maintaining, promoting, and enhancing life, and that destroying, injuring, and limiting life are evil.

About morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.