Quotes about Ethics
We must, from the highest office in the land right down to the shoeshine boy in the airport, have a return to biblical basics.
- Jerry Falwell
Duty is what one expects from others, it is not what one does oneself.
- Oscar Wilde
Civilization is not by means an easy thing to attain to. There are only two ways by which man can reach it. One is by being cultured, the other by being corrupt.
- Oscar Wilde
Women represent the triumph of matter over mind, just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals.
- Oscar Wilde
Men become old, but they never become good.
- Oscar Wilde
Algy, you always adopt a strictly immoral attitude towards life. You are not quite old enough to do that.
- Oscar Wilde
As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination.When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.
- Oscar Wilde
Hear no evil, speak no evil, and you'll never be invited to a party.
- Oscar Wilde
Modern morality consists in accepting the standard of one's age. I consider that for any man of culture to accept the standard of his age is a form of the grossest immorality.
- Oscar Wilde
Each class would have preached the importance of those virtues, for whose exercise there was no necessity in their own lives.
- Oscar Wilde
There are only two ways, as you know, of becoming civilized. One is by being cultured, the other is by being corrupt.
- Oscar Wilde
No artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style. No artist is ever morbid.
- Oscar Wilde