Ethics are not necessarily to do with being law-abiding. I am very interested in the moral path, doing the right thing. – Kate Atkinson
In spite of everything, I still believe that people are good at heart. – Anne Frank
The rules of morality are not the conclusion of our reason. – David Hume
To know what is right and not to do it is the worst cowardice. – Confucious
I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false estimates they have made of the value of things. – Benjamin Franklin
Great is the issue at stake, greater than appears, whether a man is to be good or bad. And what will any one be profited if, under the influence of money or power, he neglect justice and virtue? – Plato
Morality is a private and costly luxury. – Henry Adams
A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both. – Dwight D. Eisenhower
Ethics or simple honesty is the building blocks upon which our whole society is based, and business is a part of our society, and it’s integral to the practice of being able to conduct business, that you have a set of honest standards. – Kerry Stokes
The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated. – Henry Louis Mencken
A human being is not to be handled as a tool but is to be respected and revered. – Felix Adler
The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal is integrity. – Zig Ziglar
Old age, especially an honored old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth. – Marcus Tullius Cicero
Good and evil are asymmetrical; there are more ways to harm people than to help them, and harmful acts can hurt them to a greater degree than virtuous acts can make them better off. – Steven Pinker
Even the most rational approach to ethics is defenseless if there isn’t the will to do what is right. – Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself. – Bertrand Russell
Don’t worry so much about your self-esteem. Worry more about your character. Integrity is its own reward. – Laura Schlessinger
Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing wonder and awe – the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me. – Immanuel Kant
A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him. – Albert Schweitzer
We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. – Aristotle
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