If any morality or ethics does not include kindness as their fundamental ingredient, then they are just an absurdity.

Funny how money speaks even more loudly than morals in this beautiful, superficial material world.

Wrong is wrong only when you are at liberty to choose.

Kindness and generosity ... form the true morality of human actions.

Morality must guide calculation, and calculation must guide politics.

I have yet to meet a man as fond of high moral conduct as he is of outward appearances.

A gentleman takes as much trouble to discover what is right as the lesser men take to discover what will pay.

When morality comes up against profit, it is seldom that profit loses.

I am not sure whether ethical absolutes exist. But I am sure that we have to act as if they existed or civilization perishes.

We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon on the Mount.

The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants.

Grub first, then ethics.

Your luck is how you treat people.

Do the right thing.

True morality consists not in following the beaten track, but in finding out the true path for ourselves and in fearlessly following it.

Either the right to live and die are both sacred, or neither is.

Because the ethics of men has been a powerful social ability since the most ancient period of human life, there has developed in the human heart a voice of authority that down to the present day still echoes in our own hearts. It has a mysterious quality that is not due to the stimulus of the outside world, nor is it a matter of advantage or disadvantage; [rather] it is a naturally produced authority. Its mysterious nature is similar to the mystery of sex, the mystery of mother love, and the mystery of sacrifice.

What we might consider is how we are good rather than how good we are.

Ethics is about what is right, not who is right.

The real problem is in the hearts and minds of men. It is not a problem of physics but of ethics. It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.