Morality And Ethics Quotes

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

  A.J. Ayer

  Ethics, Morality, Divine

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

  John Donne

  Doe, Fleas, Ethics

  John Donne, John Carey (2000). “John Donne: The Major Works”, p.340, Oxford University Press, USA

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

  Henry David Thoreau

  Ethics, Morality, Chiefs

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.537, Simon and Schuster

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• 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.

  Robert Frost

  Brave, Ethics, Chance

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

  Henry David Thoreau

  Ethics, Morality, Affinity

  Henry David Thoreau (1873). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.303

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• 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.

  Mordecai Richler

  Eight, Class, Ethics

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

  Howard Cosell

  Honesty, Integrity, Character

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• Morality is not respectability.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Ethics, Morality, Respectability

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• 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.

  W. Clement Stone

  Strength, Inspiring, Courage

  "Teen Ink: What Matters". Book by Stephanie H. Meyer, John Meyer and Peggy Veljkovic (p. 309), April 15, 2003.

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

  Plautus

  Done, Favour, Ethics

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  Do the right thing because it is right.

  Immanuel Kant

  Courage, Honesty, Integrity

  Immanuel Kant (2005). “Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals”, p.39, Broadview Press

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• 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.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, God, Religious

  Albert Einstein (2013). “Albert Einstein, The Human Side: Glimpses from His Archives”, p.39, Princeton University Press

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• 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.

  Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth

  Mean, Greed, Survival

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

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Ethics And Morals, Morality, Moral Ethics

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• Have the courage to face the truth

  W. Clement Stone

  Courage, Honesty, Integrity

  Napoleon Hill, W. Clement Stone (1991). “Success Through a Positive Mental Attitude”, p.139, Simon and Schuster

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• 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

  Inspirational Life, Integrity, Evil

  Albert Schweitzer (1932). “Civilization and ethics. 3d. ed”

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• What is moral is what you feel good after.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Feel Good, Afternoon, Ethics And Morals

  Death in the Afternoon ch. 1 (1932)

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

  Albert Camus

  Life, Honesty, Integrity

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

  Samuel Butler

  Country, Feelings, Peers

  Samuel Butler (2014). “The Notebooks of Samuel Butler”, p.48, The Floating Press

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• Don't be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Cheating, Ethics And Morals

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

  Zig Ziglar

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Smart

  "Refining Your Style : Learning from Respected Communicators" by Dave Stone, (p. 143), 2004.

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

  Samuel Johnson

  Education, Honesty, Integrity

  'Rasselas' (1759) ch. 41

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• 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.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Inspiring, Feel Good, Afternoon

  Death in the Afternoon ch. 1 (1932)

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

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Inspirational, Life, Relationship

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr. (2000). “Life's Instructions for Wisdom, Success, and Happiness”, p.83, Thomas Nelson Inc

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

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Courage, Integrity

  Mark Twain (2013). “Autobiography of Mark Twain”, p.372, Univ of California Press

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