Lao Tzu Quotes

I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.

I have learned that a clear conscience, or a legal opinion, does not make you ethically bullet proof.

His conduct still right with his argument wrong.

Truth is not half way between right and wrong;

Nothing but the right can ever be expedient, since that can never be true expediency which would sacrifice a great good to a less.

When goodness is lost, it is replaced by morality.

Right and truth are greater than any power, and all power is limited by right.

Conscience and cowardice are really the same things, Basil. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all.

People have a moral standard about what they will do and will not do. At the end of the day someone who cheats has a lower moral standard than someone who does not. And they will cheat in other areas of life as well.

Ethical is 'I'll wait and do what's right even in the hardest times and even if I have to give up gains to do it.'

We Indians are Latin America's moral reserve. We act according to a universal law that consists of three basic principles: do not steal, do not lie and do not be idle.

It may not have the virtuous ring of the golden rule, but the maxim 'never say never' is one of the most important in ethics.

Ethics are not necessarily to do with being law-abiding. I am very interested in the moral path, doing the right thing.

His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy.

I am fortunate to have been well paid for an almost pathological honesty.

All a man can betray is his conscience.

That which is morally wrong will never be politically right.

Without a clear moral vision, we devolve into moral relativism, and from there, into oblivion.

I have a pretty keen ethical compass.

We've lost our sense of ethics; we live in a world of small-mindedness, of gratification without happiness and actions without meaning.

moral, adj. Conforming to a local and mutable standard of right. Having the quality of general expediency.

We care about moral issues, nobility, decency, happiness, goodness—the issues that matter in the real world, but which can only be addressed, in their purity, in fiction.

What is the real relation between happiness and goodness? It is only within a few generations that men have found courage to say that there is none.

Every uniform corrupts one's character.

Whenever you find a man who says he does not believe in a real Right and Wrong, you will find the same man going back on this a moment later. He may break his promise to you, but if you try breaking one to him he will be complaining 'It's not fair' before you can say Jack Robinson.