What Are Ethics And Morality Quotes

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. There is nothing so bad but it can masquerade as moral.

Walter Lippmann

#5. Without morality and ethics there is no religion (dharma), the foundation of religion is morality and ethics.

Dada Bhagwan

#6. 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

#7. A quiet conscience makes one strong!

Anne Frank

#8. 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

#9. 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

#10. To know the good is to react against the bad. Indifference is the mark of deprivation.

Marya Mannes

#11. 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

#12. The market has no morality

Michael Heseltine

#13. 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

#14. 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

#15. 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

#16. 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

#17. 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

#18. 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

#19. If any morality or ethics does not include kindness as their fundamental ingredient, then they are just an absurdity.

Debasish Mridha

#20. I say that a man must be certain of his morality for the simple reason that he has to suffer for it.

G.K. Chesterton

#21. When morality comes up against profit, it is seldom that profit loses.

Shirley Chisholm

#22. 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

#23. 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

#24. The sign of a good conscience is for a man to be in support of basically everything that Westboro Baptist isn't.

Luke Myer

#25. 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

#26. 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

#27. No morality can be founded on authority, even if the authority were divine.

A.J. Ayer

#28. 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

#29. 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

#30. 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

#31. You cannot receive a shock unless you have an electric affinity for that which shocks you.

Henry David Thoreau

#32. Morality must guide calculation, and calculation must guide politics.

Madame De Stael

#33. 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

#34. 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

#35. What was it about us, as humans, that drove us to make apologies for beautiful things?

Nenia Campbell

#36. 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

#37. 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

#38. All lines are gray in the dark.

Nenia Campbell

#39. It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.

Voltaire

#40. What is morality but immemorial custom? Conscience is the chief of conservatives.

Henry David Thoreau