Quotes about Ethics
and though a sworn foe to human bloodshed, yet had he in his straight-bodied coat, spilled tuns upon tuns of leviathan gore.
— Herman Melville
if he is going to live for ever, what good will it do to pitch him overboard—tell me that?" "Give him a good ducking, anyhow.
— Herman Melville
That mortal man should feed upon the creature that feeds his lamp
— Herman Melville
What of it, if some old hunks of a sea-captain orders me to get a broom and sweep down the decks? What does that indignity amount to, weighed, I mean, in the scales of the New Testament?
— Herman Melville
Go to the meat-market of a Saturday night and see the crowds of live bipeds staring up at the long rows of dead quadrupeds. Does not that sight take a tooth out of the cannibal's jaw? Cannibals? who is not a cannibal?
— Herman Melville
My lord, it is easier for some men to be saints, than for others not to be sinners.
— Herman Melville
Ah, thought he, after good actions one's conscience is never ungrateful, however much so the benefited party may be.
— Herman Melville
Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.
— Dante Alighieri
No one gets away with anything, ever, so take responsibility for your own life.
— Jordan Peterson
Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience.
— George Washington
Earn your success based on service to others, not at the expense of others.
— H Jackson Brown, Jr.
Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.
— Henry Ward Beecher