Anita Roddick Quotes

I think that ethical behaviour is another feature of the kind of inner discipline that leads to a happier existence.

Ethical maxims are bandied about as a sort of current coin of discourse, and, being never melted down for use, those that are of base metal are never detected.

There'd be a lot less scandal if people didn't idealize sin and pose as sinners.

Tis certain that Morality is an indispensable Requisite of true Religion, and there can be none without it. But it would become the Pride and Ignorance of Pagans only, to magnify it, as the Whole of what is necessary.

The great difficulty about keeping the Ten Commandments is that no man can keep them and be a gentleman.

Morality represents for everybody a thoroughly definite and ascertained idea: the idea of human conduct regulated in a certain manner.

Ethics is a code of values which guide our choices and actions and determine the purpose and course of our lives.

Perhaps the most significant moral characteristic of a nation is its hypocrisy.

We believe there should be a huge area between everything you should do and everything you can do without getting into legal trouble. I don't think you should come anywhere near that line. We don't deserve much credit for this. It helps us make more money. I'd like to believe that we'd behave well even if it didn't work. But more often, we've made extra money from doing the right thing. Ben Franklin said I'm not moral because of it's the right thing to do - but because it's the best policy.

Ye must leave righteous ways behind, not to speak of unrighteous ways.

The moral world has no particular objection to vice, but an insuperable repugnance to hearing vice called by its proper name.

I must affirm that it is just as wrong, or perhaps even more so, to use moral means to preserve immoral ends.

As long as the decent people refuse to believe that morality must manifest itself in every sphere of human activity, including the political, they will not meet the challenge of Marxism.

As a rule of thumb I say, if Socrates, Jesus and Tolstoy wouldn't do it, don't.

It’s pretty simple, the ethical life. It’s just demanding.

Fundamentally, the force that rules the world is conduct, whether it be moral or immoral. If it is moral, at least there may be hope for the world. If immoral, there is not only no hope, but no prospect of anything but destruction of all that has been accomplished during the last 5,000 years.

The relationship between the films and the individual Commandments [is] a tentative one. The films should be influenced by the individual Commandments to the same degree that the Commandments influence our daily lives.

We create an environment where it is alright to hate, to steal, to cheat, and to lie if we dress it up with symbols of respectability, dignity and love.

Ethics, as has been well said, are the finest fruits of humanity, but they are not its roots

Morals - all correct moral laws - derive from the instinct to survive. Moral behavior is survival behavior above the individual level.

In the 'bullshit department' a businessman can't hold a candle to a clergyman.

Many among men are they who set high the show of honor, yet break justice.

One of the greatest failures of our generation is not living out the biblical precepts which we so clearly articulate.

Debased men, but they all had something in common: They showed a keen regard for virtue, and tried to dress themselves in that costume. Hypocrisy, for all its bad reputation, at least showed a decent respect for goodness.

Morality is always higher than law and we cannot forget this ever.