ethics Quotes

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.

When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.

The only fundamental and possible socialism is the socialisation of the selective breeding of man.

The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier.

An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.

It's so hard to know what to do when one wishes earnestly to do right.

The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor.

Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.

If you have religious faith, very good, you can add on secular ethics, then religious belief, add on it, very good. But even those people who have no interest about religion, okay, it's not religion, but you can train through education.

There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness.