We endeavor to make a virtue of the faults we are unwilling to correct.               —François de La Rochefoucauld

The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts: to return love for hate, to include the excluded, and to say, “I was wrong.”

—Sydney Harris

The recognition of the sanctity of the life of every man is the first and only basis of all morality. —Leo Tolstoy

Nothing is politically right which is morally wrong.

—Daniel O’Connell

Never let your morals get in the way of doing what’s right.

—Isaac Asimov

Nonviolence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.                                                               —Thomas Alva Edison

The more prohibitions you have, the less virtuous people will be. The more weapons you have, the less secure people will be.

—Lao-tzu

Let me give you a definition of ethics: It is good to maintain and further life, it is bad to damage and destroy life.

—Albert Schweitzer

The act of acting morally is behaving as if everything we do matters.   —Gloria Steinem

The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom, power without conscience. Our is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants.

—General Omar Bradley

A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.

 —Albert Camus

Even the most rational approach to ethics is defenseless if there isn’t the will to do what is right.             —Alexander Solzhenitsyn