"The Master said, "If your conduct is determined solely by considerations of profit you will arouse great resentment."

Ethics, Conduct, Profit, Resentment, Behavior

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"Your moral foundation and character currently depend on what you hear."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

Ethics, Moral Foundation, Character, Influence, Values

"To exchange all the goodness and grace of every life in Omelas for that single, small improvement: to throw away the happiness of thousands for the chance of the happiness of one: that would be to let guilt within the walls indeed."

Ursula K. Le Guin, American Writer

Ethics, Goodness, Grace, Happiness, Guilt

"Morality exists in the neurons as a natural sensation. Religion only tries to codify it."

Abhijit Naskar, Indian Author

Ethics, Morality, Truth, Wisdom, Religion

"Life wants you to know that feelings are more important than facts, and you should never hurt someone just to be right."

Bryant McGill, American Poet

Ethics, Feelings, Truth, Wisdom, Compassion

"Sometimes it is better to say 'no' and lose your job than it is to say 'yes' and lose your soul."

Todd Stocker, American Author

Ethics, Integrity, Choice, Courage, Work

"Ethics are the things that say, 'Don't stick your finger in the socket.' The world says, 'It's okay because we've shut off the electricity.' And at the point that we've chosen to listen to the world and ignore our ethics, we say, 'I'm having a really hard time getting back up."

Craig D. Lounsbrough, American Author

Ethics, Morality, Truth, Life

"People shouldn't have to earn kindness. They should have to earn cruelty."

Maggie Stiefvater, American Author

Ethics, Kindness, Empathy, Morality, Justice

"You can know something is a lie when it has no love in it."

Bryant McGill, American Poet

Ethics, Lie, Love, Truth, Wisdom

"I was brought up to be honest; the trouble is it gets me nowhere." Liking her better, he smiled and said, "It'll get us to heaven." "Will it?" "If heaven existed." "Do you not believe in heaven, Mr. Fielding, may I ask?" she said, looking at him shyly. "I do not. Yet I believe that honesty gets us there."

E. M. Forster, English Novelist

Ethics, Honesty, Faith, Belief, Integrity

"Why is it that human beings are allowed to grow up without the necessary apparatus to make sound ethical decisions?"

Jeanette Winterson, British Novelist

Ethics, Humanity, Decision, Responsibility

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"When the Master entered the great temple he asked about everything. Someone said, 'Who will say that this son of the man of Zou knows about ritual? When he enters the temple, he asks about everything'. The Master heard of it and said, 'This is the ritual'."

Ritual

"Knowledge is merely brilliance in organization of ideas and not wisdom. The truly wise person goes beyond knowledge."

Wisdom

"The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action."

Action

"How can you love people without encouraging them? And how can you be loyal to people without educating them."

Relationship

"To study and constantly, is this not a pleasure? To have friends come from far away places, is this not a joy? If people do not recognize your worth, but this does not worry you, are you not a true gentleman?"

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"Your moral foundation and character currently depend on what you hear."

"To exchange all the goodness and grace of every life in Omelas for that single, small improvement: to throw away the happiness of thousands for the chance of the happiness of one: that would be to let guilt within the walls indeed."

"Morality exists in the neurons as a natural sensation. Religion only tries to codify it."

"Life wants you to know that feelings are more important than facts, and you should never hurt someone just to be right."

"Sometimes it is better to say 'no' and lose your job than it is to say 'yes' and lose your soul."

"Ethics are the things that say, 'Don't stick your finger in the socket.' The world says, 'It's okay because we've shut off the electricity.' And at the point that we've chosen to listen to the world and ignore our ethics, we say, 'I'm having a really hard time getting back up."

"People shouldn't have to earn kindness. They should have to earn cruelty."

"You can know something is a lie when it has no love in it."

"Why is it that human beings are allowed to grow up without the necessary apparatus to make sound ethical decisions?"

Explore more quotes by Confucius

"When the Master entered the great temple he asked about everything. Someone said, 'Who will say that this son of the man of Zou knows about ritual? When he enters the temple, he asks about everything'. The Master heard of it and said, 'This is the ritual'."

"Knowledge is merely brilliance in organization of ideas and not wisdom. The truly wise person goes beyond knowledge."

"The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action."

"How can you love people without encouraging them? And how can you be loyal to people without educating them."

"To study and constantly, is this not a pleasure? To have friends come from far away places, is this not a joy? If people do not recognize your worth, but this does not worry you, are you not a true gentleman?"

"You can force the people to obey, you cannot force them to understand."

"Study the past, if you would divine the future."

"The firm, the enduring, the simple, and the modest are near to virtue."

"Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished."

"He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good."