Ethics Quotes

"Truth is the highest thing that man may keep" "Hope of ill gain is the beginning of loss" "Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door" "Politically, the weakness of the argument has always been that those who choose the lesser evil forget very quickly that they chose evil." "The welfare of the people is the ultimate law" "Good conduct arises out of good doctrine" "Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth." "The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own." "Chronic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable sentiment." "Looking at the truth, the money never lies" "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" "There is no man so good, who, were he to submit all his thoughts and actions to the laws, would not deserve hanging ten times in his life." "Justice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as first it resides in the hearts and souls of the citizens" "Virtue is not given by money, but that from virtue comes money and every other good of man, public as well as private" "Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws" "In some sort of crude sense which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose" "The greatest tyrannies are always perpetrated in the name of the noblest causes" "All that makes existence valuable to any one depends on the enforcement of restraints upon the actions of other people." "Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life." "The omission of good is no less reprehensible than the commission of evil."