Quotes about Ethics
Selfishness is not an option, even when it comes to a cell's own survival.
- Deepak Chopra
You want to protect the innocent. Let me tell you, God isn't just in the rabbits. He's also in the foxes. So your little act of kindness deprived God of a meal.
- Deepak Chopra
Kings were no better than murderers, the only difference being that they had a legal monopoly on killing.
- Deepak Chopra
Freedom comes from moral self-control. There is no other way to achieve it.
- Dennis Prager
Vivisection is a social evil because if it advances human knowledge, it does so at the expense of human character.
- George Bernard Shaw
The soul is perfected by knowledge and virtue.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
Science sans conscience n' est que le ruine de l'âme. Knowledge without conscience is but the ruine of the soule.
- Francois Rabelais
If you cannot attain knowledge without torturing a dog, you must do without knowledge.
- George Bernard Shaw
[Misquotation; not by Einstein.] If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker. [Apparently remorseful for his role in the development of the atom bomb.]
- Albert Einstein
The supreme quality of leadership is integrity.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
It's true that charisma can make a person stand out for a moment, but character sets a person apart for a lifetime.
- John Maxwell
In the worst of times the best among us never lose their moral compass, and that is how they emerge relatively unscathed.
- Henry Rollins