Quotes about Ethics

You not only have a right to be an individual. You have a responsibility.

If you step on other people's necks to get rich, or barter your personal honor, then it is others who pay for your success and you can hardly call it your own. If, however, you build something that is of benefit to other people, give them an opportunity to rise with you on your upward climb, you make a contribution.

It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.

Human beings should be held accountable. Leave God alone. He has enough problems.

There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.

Wicked men obey out of fear; good men, out of love.

To enjoy the things we ought, and to hate the things we ought, has the greatest bearing on excellence of character.

Happiness is prosperity combined with virtue.

Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses or avoids

I call that law universal, which is conformable merely to dictates of nature; for there does exist naturally an universal sense of right and wrong, which, in a certain degree, all intuitively divine, even should no intercourse with each other, nor any compact have existed.

Both excess and defect are alike prejudicial to moral virtue.

The truly good and wise man will bear all kinds of fortune in a seemly way, and will always act in the noblest manner that the circumstances allow.