Ethics Quotes

"Wealth does not bring about excellence, but excellence makes wealth and everything else good for men." "The duty of man is the same in respect to his own nature as in respect to everything else, namely not to follow it but to amend it." "I am not aware that any community has a right to force another to be civilized." "Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness, wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness." "A real education includes the knowledge of values, the beauty of nature, and the importance of human dignity." "The problem with religion, well among other problems, is that it's the only way where you can get people – good people – to do immoral things." "Let the Lord judge the criminals." "Virtue is its own reward" "We cannot mistake absolutism for principle." "A man is morally free when, in an extant universe, he is capable of doing whatever he thinks is right, of thinking whatever he believes is true, and of feeling whatever he feels." "It is right to give every man his due" "Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good" "Equality is out—but immortality is in" "A sense of duty is useful in work, but offensive in personal relationships." "There are no rights. There are only privileges." "The real reason that we can't have the Ten Commandments in a courthouse: You cannot post Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not commit adultery, and Thou shalt not lie in a building full of lawyers, judges, and politicians. It creates a hostile work environment." "A person's rightful due is to be treated as an object of love, not as an object for use." "To love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues." "The honor of a nation is its life" "It isn't what we say or think that defines us, but what we do"