Quotes about Ethics
The smallest good dead is better than the best intention
- John Wooden
Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value. —ALBERT EINSTEIN
- John Wooden
It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
- Mark Twain
Never write an advertisement which you wouldn't want your own family to read. You wouldn't tell lies to your own wife. Don't tell them to mine. Do as you would be done by.
- David Ogilvy
We oppose and abhor the damnable practice of wholesale abortion and every other unholy and impure act which strikes at the very foundation of the home and family, our most basic institutions.
- Ezra Taft Benson
Almost all the early Christian Fathers were opposed to the death penalty, even though it was of course standard practice across the ancient world.
- NT Wright
We consume the carcasses of creatures of like appetites, passions and organs with our own, and fill the slaughterhouses daily with screams of pain and fear.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
This country has nothing to fear from the crooked man who fails. We put him in jail. It is the crooked man who succeeds who is a threat to this country.
- Theodore Roosevelt
Farm animals feel pleasure and sadness, excitement and resentment, depression, fear, and pain. They are far more aware and intelligent than we ever imagined...they are individuals in their own right.
- Jane Goodall
Modesty is hardly to be described as a virtue. It is a feeling rather than a disposition. It is a kind of fear of falling into disrepute.
- Aristotle
The fear of doing right is the grand treason in times of danger.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Never lie, steal, cheat, or drink. But if you must lie, lie in the arms of the one you love. If you must steal, steal away from bad company. If you must cheat, cheat death. And if you must drink, drink in the moments that take your breath away.
- Will Smith