Quotes about Ethics

The questions were, 'What did you accomplish?' 'What will you accomplish next?' 'How can you improve?'" "That's it?" "Not quite. The question on the back was, 'Are you embracing the values?

You shall not commit adultery. You shall not steal. You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor. You shall not covet your neighbor's house. You shall not covet your neighbor's wife, or his manservant or maidservant, his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.

Before you develop a conscience, torture is amusing.

In the beginning there was only a small amount of injustice abroad in the world, but everyone who came afterwards added their portion, always thinking it was very small and unimportant, and look where we have ended up today.

About the nature of human beings. I discovered that confronted by temptation, we will always fall. Given the right circumstances, every human being on this earth would be willing to commit evil.

You only need to hide if you're doing something you shouldn't.

Do not do to another that which you would abhor being done to you; that is the law. All the rest is legal commentary.

One of the most aggressive things a human being can do is to go against what he or she believes is nice or pretty.

Switzerland is one of the few countries in the world where a man's word is still his bond.

You can find justification for slavery in the Bible. Some say this is what the Bible says and that closes the argument.

Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and pursuit, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.

The art of governing consists simply of being honest, exercising common sense, following principle, and doing what is right and just.