ethics Quotes

Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production; and the interest of the producer ought to be attended to, only so far as it may be necessary for promoting that of the consumer.

Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience.

The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.

There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity - the law of nature and of nations.

Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.

Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.

Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.

Free trade is not based on utility but on justice.