Ethics Quotes

Ethics may be defined as the obligations of morality. Louis Kossuth

The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. Omar Bradley

Discontent is the seed of ethics. Friedrich Nietzsche

Grub first, then ethics. Bertolt Brecht

In civilized life, law floats in a sea of ethics. Earl Warren

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

Reading about ethics is about as likely to improve one’s behavior as reading about sports is to make one into an athlete. Mason Cooley

The most powerful lessons about ethics and morality do not come from school discussions or classes in character building. They come from family life where people treat one another with respect, consideration, and love. Neil Kurshan

Ethics, too, are nothing but reverence for life. That 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