Ethics Quotes

"No random actions, none not based on underlying principles." "The way we live has ramifications beyond our personal lives." "Our religion is made to eradicate vices, instead it encourages them, covers them, and nurtures them" "Pardoning the bad, is injuring the good " "Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience" "A ruler who hides behind paid executioners soon forgets what death is" "Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices" "In the end, people will justify everything they want" "The best way to cultivate moral values is to create an environment where ethical thinking is rewarded and celebrated." "The death of dogma is the birth of morality" "Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness" "Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law" "A good conscience is a continual Christmas" "He is ill clothed that is bare of virtue" "The noblest question in the world is 'What good may I do in it?'"