Quotes about Ethics

Much of the world's moral compass is broken. The moral north reads south and the moral south reads north.

I've run into a lot of companies that invent positions for great people just so they don't get away. But hiring people when you don't have real work for them is insulting to them and hurtful to you.

Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.

And my Christianity, first and foremost, governed the way that I tried to deal with people.

The most tragic thing in the world is a man of genius who is not a man of honor.

A man of my spiritual intensity does not eat corpses.

The average age (longevity) of a meat eater is 63. I am on the verge of 85 and still work as hard as ever. I have lived quite long enough and am trying to die; but I simply cannot do it. A single beef-steak would finish me; but I cannot bring myself to swallow it. I am oppressed with a dread of living forever. That is the only disadvantage of vegetarianism.

Morals are a luxury of the rich.

I don't want to punish anybody, but there are an extraordinary number of people who I might want to kill.

He never does a proper thing without giving an improper reason for it.

It is quite useless to declare that all men are born free if you deny that they are born good.

Loyalty in a critic is corruption.