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Life Quotes... Ethics & Morality
“Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient,
but if it is right.”
Alan Paton
“Man is an animal with primary instincts of
survival. Consequently,
his ingenuity has developed first and his soul afterward.
Thus the progress of science is far ahead of man’s ethical
behavior.”
Charlie Chaplin
“A moral being is one who is capable of
reflecting on his past actions and their motives - of approving of
some and disapproving of others.”
Charles Darwin
“When bad men combine, the good must associate;
else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a
contemptible struggle.”
Edmund Burke
“Indifference, to me, is the epitome of
evil.”
Elie Wiesel
“Art, like morality, consists in drawing the
line somewhere.”
G. K. Chesterton
“The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is
not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that’s the essence
of inhumanity.”
George Bernard Shaw
“Expedients are for the hour, but principles
are for the ages.”
Henry Ward Beecher
“I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional
love will have the final word in reality. This is why right,
temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.”
Martin Luther King, Jr.
“It is important that people know what you
stand for. It’s equally
important that they know what you won’t stand for.”
Mary Waldrop
“Morals are an acquirement - like music, like a
foreign language, like piety, poker, paralysis - no man is born with
them.”
Mark Twain
“Give to every human being every right that you
claim for yourself.”
Robert Ingersoll
“I would prefer even to fail with honor than
win by cheating.”
Sophocles
“No man is justified in doing evil on the
grounds of expedience.”
Theodore Roosevelt
“The moral sense, or conscience, is as much a
part of man as his leg or his arm.”
Thomas Jefferson
“There is only one morality, as there is only
one geometry.”
Voltaire
“Right is right, even if everyone is against
it; and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.”
William Penn
“This above all - to thine own self be true,
and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false
to any man.”
William Shakespeare
“A man has to live with himself; he should see that
he always has good company.”
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