Quotes about Ethics
Heaven itself has ordained the right.
- George Washington
It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment and learn again to exercise ... his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals.
- Albert Schweitzer
I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.
- Ernest Hemingway
So many laws argue so many sins.
- John Milton
If you put a chain around the neck of a slave, the other end fastens itself around your own.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport: wlien the tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.
- George Bernard Shaw
The sun shines even on the wicked.
- Seneca
I beg leave to assure the Congress that no pecuniary consideration could have tempted me to accept this arduous employment at the expense of my domestic ease and happiness. I do not wish to make any profit from it.
- George Washington
Vice can be learnt, even without a teacher.
- Seneca
I believe that Virtue shows quite as well in rags and patches as she does in purple and fine linen.
- Charles Dickens
The only reward of virtue is virtue.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson