Ethics

Do what is right, not what is easy nor what is popular.

Roy T. Bennett

The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.

Aldous Huxley

Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage.

Confucius

Right is right even if no one is doing it; wrong is wrong even if everyone is doing it.

Saint Augustine

The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.

Mahatma Gandhi

If war is ever lawful, then peace is sometimes sinful.

C.S Lewis

Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

Immanuel Kant

Good actions ennoble us, we are the sons of our own deeds.

Miguel de Cervantes

Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Chinese proverbs

To see what is right, and not do it, is want of courage, or of principle.

Confucius

Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.

George Washington

The time is always right to do what is right.

Martin Luther King

The test of your worldview is not how you act in the good times, the test of your worldview is how you act at the funeral.

Rick Warren

Live simply, that others may simply live.

Mahatma Gandhi

The high minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think.

Aristotle

Better an empty purse than wrongly got money.

Norwegian proverbs

It is impossible to live pleasurably without living prudently, honorably, and justly; or to live prudently, honorably, and justly, without living pleasurably.

Epicurus

Men do not differ much about what things they will call evils; they differ enormously about what evils they will call excusable.

G.K. Chesterton

There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.

Benjamin Franklin

There is something about inside information which seems to paralyse a man's reasoning powers.

Bernard Baruch