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Morality and ethics are nothing but footballs, wherewith people, strong people play to win points.
Sep 17, 2025
Integrity, a standard of personal morality and ethics, is not relative to the situation you happen to find yourself in and doesn't sell out to expediency. Its short supply is getting shorter - but without it, leadership is a facade.
Morality is not respectability.
I gravitate toward the law, I think, certainly more times than not, because it's our best mechanism for legislating human behavior, and morality, and ethics.
The flea, though he kill none, he does all the harm he can.
Ethics is the activity of man directed to secure the inner perfection of his own personality.
No morality can be founded on authority, even if the authority were divine.
It is customary these days to ignore what should be done in favour of what pleases us.
Stand for something. Don't quest for popularity at the expense of morality and ethics and honesty.
Relativity applies to physics, not ethics.
So let me put it thus: Hold on to your principles of morality and ethics, use your willpower to the limit, pay great heed to every noble, uplifting desire that is in you; but realize that these things alone are not enough, that they will never bring you to the desired place. We have to realize that all our best is totally inadequate, that a spiritual battle must be fought in a spiritual manner.
Ethics, too, are nothing but reverence for life. This is what gives me the fundamental principle of morality, namely, that good consists in maintaining, promoting, and enhancing life, and that destroying, injuring, and limiting life are evil.
Even the most rational approach to ethics is defenseless if there isn't the will to do what is right.
Morality is the custom of one's country and the current feeling of one's peers.
Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself.
There are ten commandments, right? Well, it's like an exam. You get eight out of ten, you're just about top of the class.
Human beings are not inevitable, and our brief existence is not preordained to be extended into the distant future. If Homo sapiens is to have a continued presence on earth, humankind will reevaluate its sense of place in the world and modify its strong species-centric stewardship of the planet. Our collective concepts of morality and ethics have a direct impact on our species' ultimate fate.
It has been an obsession of human beings to create a hierarchy that places the human species on top and lumps all the "other animals" together beneath us. The resulting "speciesism" allows us to look upon animals as less deserving of all manner of rights and considerations than humans. To support this lower status, humans have argued that animals act instinctually; don't have souls; don't feel physical pain like we do; and lack self-consciousness, cognitive intelligence, emotional feelings, morality, and ethics.
You're damn right we need a rational code of morality and ethics. But not much progress can be made in that direction while we've still got a majority ranting about gods, devils, souls, and absolute morality, and using an ancient book written by ignorant nomads as a guide.
What is morality but immemorial custom? Conscience is the chief of conservatives.
Live so that when your children think of fairness, caring, and integrity, they think of you.
Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.
A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.
You've got to be brave and you've got to be bold. Brave enough to take your chance on your own discrimination, what's right and what's wrong, what's good and what's bad.
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.
I do not believe in immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern with no superhuman authority behind it.
The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal is integrity.
Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
Don't be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so.
About morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.
What is moral is what you feel good after.
A man's ethical behaviour should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.
Man would indeeded be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.
You cannot receive a shock unless you have an electric affinity for that which shocks you.
Have the courage to face the truth
Do the right thing because it is right.
Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.
To act without rapacity, to use knowledge with wisdom, to respect interdependence, to operate without hubris and greed are not simply moral imperatives. They are an accurate scientific description of the means of survival.
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