Quotes about Ethics

Newspapers of the future, to be conducted successfully, must be divorced from special privilege and relieved from the subsidy of advertising. They must cease to be organs of propaganda for the interests which patronize their advertising columns. The type of newspaper which publishes scandal and lewd pictures will eventually go the way of all forces which debauch the human mind. These

To know the laws is not to memorize their letter but to grasp their full force and meaning.

If we can't afford to take good care of the land that feeds us, we're in an insurmountable mess.

Many feel that in today's climate some of those in authority are exercising, in effect, a self-serving, 'ends justify the means' mindset as well, and that, in turn, empowers them to do the same.

We transmit our thoughts, speech and actions - collectively known as our karma to our children and to the world, that is our future.

Let us understand, once for all, that the ethical progress of society depends, not on imitating the cosmic process, still less in running away from it, but in combating it.

It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance.

An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens.

It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.

I have the consolation of having added nothing to my private fortune during my public service, and of retiring with hands clean as they are empty.

I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just, and that his justice will not sleep forever.

A Man's management of his own purse speaks volumes about character