Top 100 Ethics Morality Quotes
#1. If practicality and morality are polarized and you must choose, you must do what you think is right, rather than what you think is practical.
Philip K. Dick
#2. Ethics evolve naturally, and we trample upon them with laws created by reason and experience.
Winston Churchill
#3. Life is not about getting everything right, as much as it's about working to live right.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#4. The experience of previous years leads to one conclusion: there is one morality in politics and another for economy. In the years since 1989, the morality of the economy has fully prevailed over the ethics of politics and democracy.
Alexis Tsipras
#5. People who try hard to do the right thing always seem mad.
Stephen King
#7. Rationality belongs to the cool observer, but because of the stupidity of the average man, he follows not reason, but faith, and the naive faith requires necessary illusion and emotionally potent oversimplifications which are provided by the myth-maker to keep ordinary person on course.
Reinhold Niebuhr
#8. [The answer of Solon to the question 'Which is the most perfect popular government?']
That where the least injury done to the meanest individual, is considered as an insult on the whole constitution.
Solon
#9. The orthodox tend to think that people who, like the postmodernists and me, believe neither in God nor in some suitable substitute, must feel that everything is permitted, that everybody can do what they like.
Richard M. Rorty
#10. For women especially, virginity has become the easy answer- the morality quick fix. You can be vapid, stupid, and unethical, but so long as you've never had sex, you're a "good" (i.e. "moral) girl and therefore worthy of praise.
Jessica Valenti
#11. Too many people get credit for being good, when they are only being passive. They are too often praised for being broadminded when they are so broadminded they can never make up their minds about anything.
Fulton J. Sheen
#12. In happiness and suffering, in joy and grief, we should regard all creatures as we regard our own self.
Mahavira
#13. You're trying to be tricky. What's morality?"
"It's the difference between what's right and what you can rationalize."
"Must be a human thing."
"Exactly.
Christopher Moore
#14. The question is where are business ethics and morality if one of the parties wants to dishonor a binding contract, just because in retrospect it realizes it could perhaps have got a better price!
Anil Ambani
#15. Shelving hard decisions is the least ethical course.
Adrian Cadbury
#16. Morally it may be better to not kill any creature for their flesh, but biologically, meat was one of the greatest factors involved in the rise of the psychology of thinking humanity.
Abhijit Naskar
#17. We ought always to deal justly, not only with those who are just to us, but likewise to those who endeavor to injure us; and this, for fear lest by rendering them evil for evil, we should fall into the same vice.
Hierocles
#18. It is only when one is under extreme duress that one's true character is revealed.
Christopher Earle
#19. Politics is about ethics and morality, openly or not openly.
Aleksandar Hemon
#20. In silence, an act is an act is an act. Verbalized and discussed, it becomes an ethical problem ...
Aldous Huxley
#21. What good does it do to tell somebody to live morally so they can die 50 years later and apparently go to Hell?
Donald Miller
#22. Whatever is my right as a man is also the right of another; and it becomes my duty to guarantee as well as to possess.
Thomas Paine
#24. Some people that are in charge are usually less intelligent than the people who work under them. The reason why those people are in charge and you aren't is because you have a conscience.
Heather Chapple
#25. I don't want to become like him. Become one of those people who believe it's okay to do anything to anyone if it achieves the 'right' end.
Lisa M. Lilly
#26. One can reach the gates of hell just as easily by short steps as by large.
Douglas Preston
#27. Capitalism has neither the capacity, nor the morality, nor the ethics to solve the problems of poverty.
Fidel Castro
#28. SEN. McCARTHY: You will teach morality, ethics, and good house-keeping to these 48 states, and to the world. By order of this committee, June Cleaver, you will be a beacon! You will sire the future and teach it what we tell you to teach it! Echo effect, echo effect, echo effect ...
Benjamin R. Smith
#29. As you say of yourself, I too am an Epicurean. I consider the genuine (not the imputed) doctrines of Epicurus as containing everything rational in moral philosophy which Greece and Rome have left us.
[Letter to William Short, 31 October 1819]
Thomas Jefferson
#30. If truth and moral values are relative, one cannot claim that certain human rights are universally applicable to all cultures and all people.
Stephen McAndrew
#31. In charity to all mankind, bearing no malice or ill will to any human being, and even compassionating those who hold in bondage their fellow men, not knowing what they do.
John Quincy Adams
#32. It takes a Bigger Courage to take on Danger, where None can be Sighted.
Vineet Raj Kapoor
#33. Morality does not come to this mortal world from some imaginary paradise. It rises from the neurons of mortal humans.
Abhijit Naskar
#34. Integrity is never a given. It is a quality that can only be proven over time.
Gary Hopkins
#35. Especially when it comes to animals used for food, humanity's reasoning power and concern about fairness plummets.
Karen Davis
#37. Evangelical faith without Christian ethics is a travesty on the gospel.
V. Raymond Edman
#38. I think moralistic science is bad for morals and bad for science.
Steven Pinker
#39. Where there is desire, the means to fulfill it are endless.
A.J. Darkholme
#40. Morality and ethics are nothing but footballs, wherewith people, strong people play to win points.
Theodore Dreiser
#41. State a moral case to a plowman and a professor. The former will decide it as well, and often better than the latter, because he has not been led astray by artificial rules.
Thomas Jefferson
#42. May we think of freedom not as the right to do as we please but as the opportunity to do what is right.
Peter Marshall
#43. Laws and principles are not for the times when there is no temptation: they are for such moments as this, when body and soul rise in mutiny against their rigour ... If at my convenience I might break them, what would be their worth?
Charlotte Bronte
#44. Individualism has really the higher aim. Modern morality consists in accepting the standard of one's age.
Oscar Wilde
#45. If someone was going to kill someone dear to you, and you could stop that person by killing them instead, would you kill them, knowing it was an effective way to save your loved one?
A.J. Darkholme
#46. Just as Man developed morals and ethical behavior over thousands of years of evolution; so, too, did he invent an authority figure to enforce these behaviors - God.
Lex Allen
#47. Even putting aside the Judeo-Christian morality upon which the Constitution and our nation's culture are based, the notion of forced euthanasia would contradict the long-held body of medical ethics to which all American doctors must adhere.
Sherwin B. Nuland
#48. A strange fanaticism fills our time: the fanatical hatred of morality, especially of Christian morality.
G.K. Chesterton
#49. Christianity is the only system of faith which combines religious beliefs with corresponding principles of morality. It builds ethics on religion.
Austin Phelps
#50. I will call no being good who is not what I mean when I apply that epithet to my fellow creatures; and if such a creature can sentence me to hell for not so calling him, to hell I will go .
John Stuart Mill
#51. The time has come for all evangelists to practice full financial disclosure. The world is watching how we walk and how we talk. We must have the highest standards of morality, ethics and integrity if we are to continue to have influence.
Billy Graham
#52. There is nothing so bad but it can masquerade as moral.
Walter Lippmann
#53. We must not fall into the trap of projecting our own morality onto the Soviet leaders. They do not share our aspirations, they are not constrained by our ethics, they always consider themselves exempt from the rules that bind other states.
Margaret Thatcher
#54. A nation's domestic and foreign policies and actions should be derived from the same standards of ethics, honesty and morality which are characteristic of the individual citizens of the nation.
Jimmy Carter
#55. Spirituality is not primarily about values and ethics, not about exhortations to do right or live well. The spiritual traditions are primarily about reality ... an effort to penetrate the illusions of the external world and to name its underlying truth.
Parker J. Palmer
#56. What is morality but immemorial custom? Conscience is the chief of conservatives.
Henry David Thoreau
#57. It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
Voltaire
#58. Refusal to stand up for what you believe in weakens individual morality and ethics as well as those of the culture.
Bell Hooks
#60. Wherever morality is based on theology, wherever right is made dependent on divine authority, the most immoral, unjust, infamous things can be justified and established.
Ludwig Feuerbach
#61. You're damn right we need a rational code of morality and ethics. But not much progress can be made in that direction while we've still got a majority ranting about gods, devils, souls, and absolute morality, and using an ancient book written by ignorant nomads as a guide.
Doug Graham
#62. What was it about us, as humans, that drove us to make apologies for beautiful things?
Nenia Campbell
#63. 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.
Albert Schweitzer
#64. Without morality and ethics there is no religion (dharma), the foundation of religion is morality and ethics.
Dada Bhagwan
#65. Morality must guide calculation, and calculation must guide politics.
Madame De Stael
#66. When morality comes up against profit, it is seldom that profit loses.
Shirley Chisholm
#67. At times, morality can be dismissed as a matter of personal conscience, no matter how widespread its acceptance. Ethics, on the other hand, arises from societal or group commitments to principia of behavior.
Sherwin B. Nuland
#68. There can be no question of holding forth on ethics. I have seen people behave badly with great morality and I note every day that integrity has no need of rules
Albert Camus
#69. What our species needs, above all else, is a generally accepted ethical system that is compatible with the scientific knowledge we now possess.
Derek Freeman
#70. No morality can be founded on authority, even if the authority were divine.
A.J. Ayer
#71. Fine blunderers in ethics we are, so generally conveying to children the basic impression that pleasantness must be wrong, and right doing unpleasant!
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
#72. We ought so to behave to one another as to avoid making enemies of our friends, and at the same time to make friends of our enemies.
Pythagoras
#73. The sign of a good conscience is for a man to be in support of basically everything that Westboro Baptist isn't.
Luke Myer
#74. Ethics and I had crossed paths recently, and I'm not sure that I fell on the right side of the morality line.
S.C. Stephens
#75. Am I a good person? Deep down, do I even really want to be a good person, or do I only want to seem like a good person so that people (including myself) will approve of me? Is there a difference? How do I ever actually know whether I'm bullshitting myself, morally speaking?
David Foster Wallace
#78. Evil ethicists are the holocaust of humanity; if philosophy can be the instant sunlight to their endless vampirism, it will save more lives than all the doctors who have ever lived.
Stefan Molyneux
#79. To be ethical is to endeavor to find one's proper place in the larger scheme of things rather than to seek to assert human superiority over the natural world.
Gary Steiner
#80. Who you are in public is a test of your conviction; who you are in private, integrity.
Criss Jami
#82. What is law? Is it what is on the books, or what is actually enacted and obeyed in a society? Or is law what must be enacted and obeyed, whether or not it is on the books, if things are to go right?
Bernhard Schlink
#83. We Humanists behave as well as we can, without any expectation of rewards or punishments in an Afterlife. We serve as best we can the only abstraction with which we have any real familiarity, which is our community.
Kurt Vonnegut
#84. Man created Guilt. Guilt is the Perpetual Engine that Drives the World.
Vineet Raj Kapoor
#85. Make not, when you work a deed of shame, The scoundrel's plea, 'My forbears did the same.
Al-Ma'arri
#86. 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
#87. Not everyone can be bribed with meat, Oberon."
"They Can't? Oh! you mean they're vegetarian."
"No, they eat meat. It just doesn't sway their decision making process."
"Well that ... that's just wrong, Atticus!Are they Monsters? It's like they have no moral center!
Kevin Hearne
#88. There's a saying that you can't put a price on a human life, but that saying is a lie because we have. We have, and it's so much lower than you would think. Yes, human life has its price like anything else, and will continue to do so for as long as it doubles as a commodity.
Nenia Campbell
#89. You cannot receive a shock unless you have an electric affinity for that which shocks you.
Henry David Thoreau
#90. Find out the difference between ethics and morality, but never forget to be kind.
Debasish Mridha
#91. Western philosophy, then, is not an extended debate about knowledge, ethics, and reality, but a succession of conceptual metaphors. Descartes's philosophy is based on KNOWING IS SEEING, Locke's on the MIND IS A CONTAINER, Kant's on MORALITY IS A STRICT FATHER, and so on.
Steven Pinker
#92. Unnatural, unorthodox, amoral: those pretensions crumble when confronted by true happiness. You shouldn't give another the authority to draw a line defining the boundaries of acceptable joy.
Darrell Drake
#93. You must always focus on and pursue the good, but when that darkness surges up from within, you need to know how to handle it, use it, and release it wisely, not just deny its presence or acceptability as you suppress it within you.
A.J. Darkholme
#95. Without man and his potential for moral progress, the whole of reality would be a mere wilderness, a thing in vain, and have no final purpose.
Immanuel Kant
#96. To know the good is to react against the bad. Indifference is the mark of deprivation.
Marya Mannes
#97. Evolution has no moral direction. An evolutionary understanding of human nature can explain the differing intuitions we have when we are faced with an individual rather than with a mass of people, or with people close to us rather than with those far away, but it does not justify those feelings.
Peter Singer
#98. Science, as long as it limits itself to the descriptive study of the laws of nature, has no moral or ethical quality and this applies to the physical as well as the biological sciences.
Ernst Boris Chain
#99. A quiet conscience makes one strong!
Anne Frank
#100. Don't judge me. Ethics and morality no longer exist in our world. It's a luxury of the past, afforded only to those who had a future.
T.M. Williams
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