Quotes about Ethics
We should behave to our friends as we would wish our friends behave to us
— Aristotle
He takes the greatest ornament from friendship, who takes modesty from it. [Lat., Maximum ornamentum amicitiae tollit, qui ex ea tollit verecudiam.]
— Cicero
It is virtue, virtue, which both creates and preserves friendship. On it depends harmony of interest, permanence, fidelity.
— Cicero
It is virtue itself that produces and sustains friendship, not without virtue can friendship by any possibility exist.
— Cicero
Justice discards party, friendship, kindred, and is always, therefore, represented as blind.
— Joseph Addison
Most vices may be committed very genteelly: a man may debauch his friend's wife genteelly: he may cheat at cards genteelly
— Samuel Johnson
It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.
— Samuel Johnson
Each man takes care that his neighbor shall not cheat him. But a day comes when he begins to care that he does not cheat his neighbor. Then all goes well -- he has changed his market-cart into a chariot of the sun.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.
— Henry David Thoreau
Law; an ordinance of reason for the common good, made by him who has care of the community
— St. Thomas Aquinas
I've been a vegetarian for years and years. I'm not judgemental about others who aren't, I just feel I cannot eat or wear living creatures.
— Drew Barrymore
Man is a being with free will; therefore, each man is potentially good or evil, and it's up to him and only him (through his reasoning mind) to decide which he wants to be.
— Ayn Rand