Ethics & Morality Quotes

Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning - an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies.

Teach a child what is wise, that is morality. Teach him what is wise and beautiful, that is religion!

Religion is the solid basis of good morals; therefore education should teach the precepts of religion, and the duties of man toward God.

The true basis of morality is utility; that is, the adaptation of our actions to the promotion of the general welfare and happiness; the endeavour so to rule our lives that we may serve and bless mankind.

Religion may have become a codification of morality, and it may fortify it, but it's not the origin of it.

Ethical decisions ensure that everyone's best interests are protected. When in doubt, don't.

Corporate executives and business owners need to realize that there can be no compromise when it comes to ethics, and there are no easy shortcuts to success. Ethics need to be carefully sown into the fabric of their companies.

Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have a right to do and what is right to do.

Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.

Religion without morality is a superstition and a curse, and morality without religion is impossible.

Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values.

Morality may consist solely in the courage of making a choice.

Moral authority comes from following universal and timeless principles like honesty, integrity, treating people with respect.

Long regarded as central to the contemporary understanding of medical ethics are four principles that must be satisfied in order to fulfill the requirements of moral decision-making. These principles are autonomy, justice, beneficence, and non-maleficence.

The growing professional disciplines of medical ethics and bioethics have had a profound impact on researchers, bedside doctors, associations of physicians, and government.

Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality.

Where there is politics or economics, there is no morality.

The driving force of any profession includes not only the special knowledge, skills and standards that it demands, but the duty to serve responsibly, selflessly and wisely, and to establish an inherently ethical relationship between professionals and society.

What is moral is what you feel good after, and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

Science by itself has no moral dimension. But it does seek to establish truth. And upon this truth morality can be built.

Medical ethics is a fascinating discipline, as it deals with issues replete with complex philosophical, moral, and ethical considerations that are rarely black or white.

Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have a right to do and what is right to do.

Morality is of the highest importance - but for us, not for God.

For me, the only sources of moral values are the pursuit of understanding and the pursuit of happiness.

Even putting aside the Judeo-Christian morality upon which the Constitution and our nation's culture are based, the notion of forced euthanasia would contradict the long-held body of medical ethics to which all American doctors must adhere.

Education is the art of making man ethical.

Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.

Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.

Because of lack of moral principle, human life becomes worthless. Moral principle, truthfulness, is a key factor. If we lose that, then there is no future.

I believe there is a moral sense and a global ethic that commands attention from people of every religion and every faith, and people of no faith. But I think what's new is that we now have the capacity to communicate instantaneously across frontiers right across the world.

Justice is the sum of all moral duty.

The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.

It's simply untrue that religion provides the only framework for a universal morality.

It is an open question whether any behavior based on fear of eternal punishment can be regarded as ethical or should be regarded as merely cowardly.

Moral science is better occupied when treating of friendship than of justice.

Computer programmers, biotechnologists, environmental scientists, neuroscientists, nanotech engineers - all of these fields, and more, should have at least a course in ethics as part of their degree requirements.

Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.

The balance of private good and general welfare is at the bottom of civilized morals; but the morals of the Heroic Age are founded on individuality, and on nothing else.

Look, we want freedom and we want liberty in this country. But we've also got to have the guts to stand up and run a tight ship in America. Morality is now a word that many people consider very square and outdated. But if we don't stand up for it, we deserve what we will get in the end - unprincipled anarchy.

All morality consists in a system of rules, and the essence of all morality is to be sought for in the respect which the individual acquires for these rules.

Morality is contraband in war.

Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners.

Bioethics is a very, very important field. As we get more and more in the arena of understanding science and getting better opportunities, the fact that you can do things with biological sciences that have an impact on a human being means you must have ethical standards.

Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself.

Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time.

I have my ethics and morals. I have my anchor point of what is right and wrong in real life, but I'm not afraid to entertain any and every aspect of personality in relationship to creating a character.

But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.