Quotes about Ethics

The indifference, callousness and contempt that so many people exhibit toward animals is evil first because it results in great suffering in animals, and second because it results in an incalculably great impoverishment of the human spirit. All education should be directed toward the refinement of the individual's sensibilities in relation not only to one's fellow humans everywhere, but to all things whatsoever.

The root of a nation's misfortunes has to be sought in the moral failings of the government.

Let me give you a tip on a clue to men's characters: the man who damns money has obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it has earned it.

Do not ever say that the desire to 'do good' by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives.

Every aspect of Western culture needs a new code of ethics -- a rational ethics -- as a precondition of rebirth.

Money is the barometer of a society's virtue.

The idea that 'the public interest' supersedes private interests and rights can have but one meaning that the interests and rights of some individuals take precedence over the interests and rights of others.

What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.

A man has free choice to the extent that he is rational.

Much of the world's moral compass is broken. The moral north reads south and the moral south reads north.

I've run into a lot of companies that invent positions for great people just so they don't get away. But hiring people when you don't have real work for them is insulting to them and hurtful to you.

Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.