Ethics Quotes

"The most practical kind of politics is the politics of decency." "It is not your business to succeed, but to do right; when you have done so, the rest lies with God" "Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil" "The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk" "The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil" "The good of the people is the chief law" "The well-being of the people is the highest law" "Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful." "It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust." "Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one." "Additional famous quotes by Socrates:" "If you see fraud and do not say fraud, you are a fraud" "Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel" "The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the inequities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men" "There's a time and place for everything, but as long as you keep it honest and real, you can do whatever you want" "Science is a beautiful gift to humanity; we should not distort it." "Honesty is the best policy" "Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not" "He who fights with monsters should be careful lest he thereby become a monster" "Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom."