ethics Quotes

Compassion is the basis of morality.

National character is only another name for the particular form which the littleness, perversity and baseness of mankind take in every country. Every nation mocks at other nations, and all are right.

The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.

What is permissible is not always honorable.

Shame may restrain what law does not prohibit.

There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.

We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates.

Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government; they are not African or Asian or European: they are good or bad.

If you desire to be good, begin by believing that you are wicked.

We tell lies, yet it is easy to show that lying is immoral.