Quotes about Ethics
There are probably several hundred thousand if we narrow the definition to include only those who in their search for money and power are ruthless and deceitful.
— Henry A. Wallace
Goodness is the only investment which never fails.
— Henry David Thoreau
Truth is always in harmony with herself, and is not concerned chiefly to reveal the justice that may consist with wrong-doing.
— Henry David Thoreau
What a singular fact for an angel visitant to this earth to carry back in his note-book, that men were forbidden to expose their bodies under the severest penalties!
— Henry David Thoreau
What is human warfare but just this an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party.
— Henry David Thoreau
Not only must we be good, but we must also be good for something.
— Henry David Thoreau
Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
— Henry David Thoreau
We should distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
— Henry David Thoreau
A grain of gold will gild a great surface, but not so much as a grain of wisdom. - from Live Without Principle
— Henry David Thoreau
The lawyer's truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency.
— Henry David Thoreau
Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.
— Henry David Thoreau
Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty.
— Henry Ford