Best Morality And Ethics Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“It is customary these days to ignore what should be done in favour of what pleases us.”

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Author:Plautus

“You've got to be brave and you've got to be bold. Brave enough to take your chance on your own discrimination, what's right and what's wrong, what's good and what's bad.”

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Author:Robert Frost

“The flea, though he kill none, he does all the harm he can.”

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Book:John Donne: The Major Works

Source: John Donne: The Major Works

“To act without rapacity, to use knowledge with wisdom, to respect interdependence, to operate without hubris and greed are not simply moral imperatives. They are an accurate scientific description of the means of survival.”

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Author:Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth

“There are ten commandments, right? Well, it's like an exam. You get eight out of ten, you're just about top of the class.”

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Author:Mordecai Richler

“No morality can be founded on authority, even if the authority were divine.”

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Author:A.J. Ayer

“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.”

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Author:Doug Graham

“Morality is not respectability.”

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Author:George Bernard Shaw

“About morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.”

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Author:Ernest Hemingway

“Integrity, a standard of personal morality and ethics, is not relative to the situation you happen to find yourself in and doesn't sell out to expediency. Its short supply is getting shorter - but without it, leadership is a facade.”

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Author:Denis Waitley

“Do the right thing because it is right.”

Source: Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals

“Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.”

“It has been an obsession of human beings to create a hierarchy that places the human species on top and lumps all the "other animals" together beneath us. The resulting "speciesism" allows us to look upon animals as less deserving of all manner of rights and considerations than humans. To support this lower status, humans have argued that animals act instinctually; don't have souls; don't feel physical pain like we do; and lack self-consciousness, cognitive intelligence, emotional feelings, morality, and ethics.”

“Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself.”

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Book:Mysticism and Logic

Source: Mysticism and Logic

“Ethics is the activity of man directed to secure the inner perfection of his own personality.”

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Book:The Light Within Us

Source: The Light Within Us

“Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.”

“It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.”

Source: Autobiography of Mark Twain

“Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.”

“Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.”

“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.”

Source: Civilization and ethics. 3d. ed

“Live so that when your children think of fairness, caring, and integrity, they think of you.”

Source: Life's Instructions for Wisdom, Success, and Happiness

“The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal is integrity.”

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Author:Zig Ziglar

“A man's ethical behaviour should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.”

Source: Ideas and Opinions

“Morality is the custom of one's country and the current feeling of one's peers.”

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Book:The Notebooks of Samuel Butler

Source: The Notebooks of Samuel Butler

“A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.”

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Author:Albert Camus

“Relativity applies to physics, not ethics.”

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Author:Albert Einstein

“Morality and ethics are nothing but footballs, wherewith people, strong people play to win points.”

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Author:Theodore Dreiser

“Even the most rational approach to ethics is defenseless if there isn't the will to do what is right.”

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Author:Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“Man would indeeded be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.”

Source: The Ultimate Quotable Einstein

“So let me put it thus: Hold on to your principles of morality and ethics, use your willpower to the limit, pay great heed to every noble, uplifting desire that is in you; but realize that these things alone are not enough, that they will never bring you to the desired place. We have to realize that all our best is totally inadequate, that a spiritual battle must be fought in a spiritual manner.”

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Author:Martyn Lloyd-Jones

“Human beings are not inevitable, and our brief existence is not preordained to be extended into the distant future. If Homo sapiens is to have a continued presence on earth, humankind will reevaluate its sense of place in the world and modify its strong species-centric stewardship of the planet. Our collective concepts of morality and ethics have a direct impact on our species' ultimate fate.”

“What is moral is what you feel good after.”

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Author:Ernest Hemingway

“Stand for something. Don't quest for popularity at the expense of morality and ethics and honesty.”

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Author:Howard Cosell

“I do not believe in immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern with no superhuman authority behind it.”

Source: Albert Einstein, The Human Side: Glimpses from His Archives

“Have the courage to face the truth”

Source: Success Through A Positive Mental Attitude

“I gravitate toward the law, I think, certainly more times than not, because it's our best mechanism for legislating human behavior, and morality, and ethics.”

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Author:David E. Kelley

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