Ethics Quotes

To consider persons, situations or events only in the light of how they affect yourself, is to live on the doorstep of hell.

The only thing a man can take beyond this lifetime is his ethics.

Grub first then ethics.

The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness beauty and truth. To make a goal of comfort or happiness has never appealed to me; a system of ethics built on this basis would be sufficient only for a herd of cattle.

An ethical person ought to do more than he?s required to do and less than he?s allowed to do.

The ethics of excellence are grounded in action ? what you actually do rather than what you say you believe. Talk as the saying goes is cheap.

First there is the law. It must be obeyed. But the law is the minimum. You must act ethically.

Ethics is not definable is not implementable because it is not conscious; it involves not only our thinking but also our feeling.

A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.