ethics Quotes

Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Virtue is relative to the actions and ages of each of us in all that we do.

To go to the world below, having a soul which is like a vessel full of injustice, is the last and worst of all the evils.

When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income.

Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another.

Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty.

No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expedience.

The very idea that we get a moral compass from religion is horrible. Not only should we not get our moral compass from religion, as a matter of fact we don't.

It is immoral to brand children with religion. 'This is a Catholic child.' 'That is a Muslim child.' I want everyone to flinch when they hear such a phrase, just as they would if they heard, 'That is a Marxist child.'