Ethics Quotes

"We have in fact two kinds of morality side by side: one which we preach but do not practice, and another which we practice but seldom preach" "There is no man so good, who, were he to submit all his thoughts and actions to the laws, would not deserve hanging ten times in his life." "Justice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as first it resides in the hearts and souls of the citizens" "Virtue is not given by money, but that from virtue comes money and every other good of man, public as well as private" "Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws" "In some sort of crude sense which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose" "The greatest tyrannies are always perpetrated in the name of the noblest causes" "All that makes existence valuable to any one depends on the enforcement of restraints upon the actions of other people." "Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life." "The omission of good is no less reprehensible than the commission of evil." "Sincerity makes the very least person to be of more value than the most talented hypocrite" "It is not well to make great changes by severe means unless the end really justifies the measure" "We cannot expect people to have respect for law and order until we teach respect to those we have entrusted to enforce those laws" "Morality is temporary, wisdom is permanent" "We do things because they are just and right"