Ethics Quotes

The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor.

One should never do wrong in return, nor mistreat any man, no matter how one has been mistreated by him.

To harm another is to harm oneself.

It is never right to do wrong or to requite wrong with wrong, or when we suffer evil to defend ourselves by doing evil in return.

Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.

Lies are the greatest murder. They kill the Truth.

The road to salvation is through truth.

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.

Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.