Quotes about Ethics
Hear no evil, speak no evil, and you won't be invited to cocktail parties.
— Oscar Wilde
I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.
— Oscar Wilde
Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.
— Oscar Wilde
Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious
— Oscar Wilde
And what sort of lives do these people, who pose as being moral, lead themselves? My dear fellow, you forget that we are in the native land of the hypocrite.
— Oscar Wilde
Cheap editions of great books may be delightful, but cheap editions of great men are absolutely detestable
— Oscar Wilde
Cheap editions of great books may be delightful, but cheap editions of great men are absolutely detestable
— Oscar Wilde
It is very wrong to kill any one[.] Oh, I hate the cheap severity of abstract ethics!
— Oscar Wilde
Philanthropic people lose all sense of humanity. It is their distinguishing characteristic.
— Oscar Wilde
I never came across anyone in whom the moral sense was dominant who was not heartless, cruel, vindictive, log-stupid, and entirely lacking in the smallest sense of humanity. Moral people, as they are termed, are simple beasts.
— Oscar Wilde
To be wealthy and honored in an unjust society is a disgrace.
— Confucius
Don't do unto others what you don't want done unto you.
— Confucius