Ethics Quotes

"There ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue. There's just stuff people do." "Every other is completely other" "Ingratitude is the essence of vileness." "He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals." "Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law." "Behind every great fortune lies a great crime" "The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience." "Education is the art of making man ethical." "The paradoxical and tragic situation of man is that his conscience is weakest when he needs it most" "Treachery and violence are spears pointed at both ends; they wound those who resort to them worse than their enemies" "The fate of animals is of greater importance to me than the fear of appearing ridiculous" "A man who makes trouble for others is also making trouble for himself" "In literature as in ethics, there is danger, as well as glory, in being subtle. Aristocracy isolates - and isolation brings its own reward" "Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical" "Compassion is the basis of morality." "Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes " "The only thing you have in this business game is your word." "The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury " "The bell of truth sounds loudest in times of moral tension and decision." "There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children."