Ethics Quotes

"He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it." "One can be a saint in an evil world, but it is quite difficult for an ordinary man to be honest in that way" "The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues" "Character is much easier kept than recovered" "A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right" "Truth is the highest thing that man may keep" "Hope of ill gain is the beginning of loss" "Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door" "Politically, the weakness of the argument has always been that those who choose the lesser evil forget very quickly that they chose evil." "The welfare of the people is the ultimate law" "Good conduct arises out of good doctrine" "Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth." "The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own." "Chronic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable sentiment." "Looking at the truth, the money never lies"