Ethics Quotes
Action indeed is the sole medium of expression for ethics.
Adler, Felix
Ethical religion can be real only to those who are engaged in ceaseless efforts at moral improvement. By moving upward we acquire faith in an upward movement, without limit.
Adler, Felix
To care for anyone else enough to make their problems one's own, is ever the beginning of one's real ethical development.
Adler, Freda
Stripped of ethical rationalizations and philosophical pretensions, a crime is anything that a group in power chooses to prohibit.
Bradley, Omar N.
Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living. We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon on the Mount.
Buddha
Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
Cicero
Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.
Ehrenreich, Barbara
Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject for an "ethic."
Ehrenreich, Barbara
I was raised the old-fashioned way, with a stern set of moral principles: Never lie, cheat, steal or knowingly spread a venereal disease. Never speed up to hit a pedestrian or, or course, stop to kick a pedestrian who has already been hit. From which it followed, of course, that one would never ever -- on pain of deletion from dozens of Christmas card lists across the country -- vote Republican.
Einstein, Albert
True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness.
Einstein, Albert
I do not believe in the immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern without any superhuman authority behind it.
Einstein, Albert
A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.
Ericson, Edward
The cosmos is neither moral or immoral; only people are. He who would move the world must first move himself.
Erskine, Thomas
In the New Testament, religion is grace and ethics is gratitude.
Gannett, William Channing
Ethics thought out is religious thought; ethics felt out is religious feeling, and ethics lived out is the religious life.
Hall, Manly P.
A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.
Hoffer, Eric
The remarkable thing is that we really love our neighbor as ourselves: we do unto others as we do unto ourselves. We hate others when we hate ourselves. We are tolerant toward others when we tolerate ourselves. We forgive others when we forgive ourselves. We are prone to sacrifice others when we are ready to sacrifice ourselves.
Jordan, Barbara
All my growth and development led me to believe that if you really do the right thing, and if you play by the rules, and if you've got good enough, solid judgment and common sense, that you're going to be able to do whatever you want to do with your life.
Lincoln, Abraham
When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.
Markham, Edwin
We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life.
Matsumura, Molleen
Reason guides our attempt to understand the world about us. Both reason and compassion guide our efforts to apply that knowledge ethically, to understand other people, and have ethical relationships with other people.
Rowe, Dorothy
We would like to believe that we are not in the business of surviving but in being good, and we do not like to admit to ourselves that we are good in order to survive.
Schweitzer, Albert
Ethics, too, are nothing but reverence for life. This is what gives me the fundamental principle of morality, namely, that good consists in maintaining, promoting, and enhancing life, and that destroying, injuring, and limiting life are evil.
Schweitzer, Albert
Let me give you the definition of ethics: it is good to maintain life and to further life. It is bad to damage and destroy life. And this ethic, profound and universal, has the significance of a religion. It is religion.
Schweitzer, Albert
A man is truly ethical only when he obeys the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist, and shrinks from injuring anything that lives.
Smith, William Robertson
But we must not forget... this ritual expressed... certain ideas which lie at the very root of true religion, the fellowship of the worshippers with one another in their fellowship with the deity, and the consecration of the bonds of kinship as the type of all right ethical relations between man and man.
Twain, Mark
Always do right--this will gratify some and astonish the rest
Wiesel, Elie
I have learned two lessons in my life: first, there are no sufficient literary, psychological, or historical answers to human tragedy, only moral ones. Second, just as despair can come to one another only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings.