Ethics Quotes

No artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style.

Oscar Wilde

The nations morals are like its teeth, the more decayed they are the more it hurts to touch them

George Bernard Shaw

Those who cultivate moral confusion for profit should understand this: we will name their names and shame them as they deserve to be shamed.

Bob Dole

For every one pupil who needs to be guarded from a weak excess of sensibility there are three who need to be awakened from the slumber of cold vulgarity

C.S. Lewis

We're given a code to live our lives by. We don't always follow it, but it's still there.

Gary Oldman

While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered beasts, how can we expect any ideal conditions on this earth?

George Bernard Shaw

If there were a party of those who aren't sure they're right, I'd belong to it. ~

Albert Camus

But for this book we could not know right from wrong.

Abraham Lincoln

The best place to learn ethics is in the home.

Warren Buffett

Morals are an acquirement - like music, like a foreign language, like piety, poker, paralysis - no man is born with them.

Mark Twain

Everywhere, the ethical predicament of our time imposes itself with an urgency which suggests that even the question Have we anything to eat? will be answered not in material but in ethical terms.

Hugo Ball

The heart never takes the place of the head: but it can, and should, obey it.

C.S. Lewis

To make a goal of comfort or happiness has never appealed to me; a system of ethics built on this basis would be sufficient only for a herd of cattle

Albert Einstein

In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place.

Mahatma Gandhi

the difference between the old and the new education being) in a word, the old was a kind of propagation - men transmitting manhood to men; the new is merely propaganda.

C.S. Lewis

Rich men without convictions are more dangerous in modern society than poor women without chastity.

George Bernard Shaw

Pleasure is Nature's test, her sign of approval.

Oscar Wilde

we (modern society) make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst. We castrate and bid the geldings be fruitful.

C.S. Lewis

Morality is neither rational nor absolute nor natural. World has known many moral systems, each of which advances claims universality; all moral systems are therefore particular, serving a specific purpose for their propagators or creators, and enforcing a certain regime that disciplines human beings for social life by narrowing our perspectives and limiting our horizons.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The only tyrant I accept in this world is the 'still small voice' within

Mahatma Gandhi