Quotes about Ethics

Compassion for animals is intimately associated with goodness of character, and it may be confidently asserted that he who is cruel to animals cannot be a good man.

The development of wickedness is one thing; the presence of any measure of holiness or virtue is another.

While men are rational creatures they are justly accountable for all they do, whatever the disposition of their hearts.

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.