Immanuel Kant Quotes

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.

May you live your life as if the maxim of your actions were to become universal law.

So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.

Duty is a better guide than stars or statutes.

The moral man is he who is opposed to injustice per se, opposed to injustice wherever he finds it; the moral man looks for injustice first of all in himself.

You can resolve to live your life with integrity. Let your credo be this: Let the lie come into the world, let it even triumph. But not through me.

In day-to-day life, you have stimulus to behave unethically, but in the long term, it always pays off to be ethical.

Simple honesty of purpose in a man goes a long way in life, if founded on a just estimate of himself and a steady obedience to the rule he knows and feels to be right.

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.'

I've tried to lead a straight, clean life, not set any kind of a bad example.

Let us be tried by our actions.

The imperative is to define what is right and do it.

Right is right, even if no one else does it.

The man of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys.

At times, morality can be dismissed as a matter of personal conscience, no matter how widespread its acceptance. Ethics, on the other hand, arises from societal or group commitments to principia of behavior.

Act as if the maxim of your action were to become through your will a be general natural law.

The trite saying that honesty is the best policy has met with the just criticism that honesty is not policy. The real honest man is honest from conviction of what is right, not from policy.

No one can harm the man who does himself no wrong.

Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.

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

I believe in pursuing my own morality. That is all I have ever stuck by. It is my own morality that really matters.

I cannot remember a time when the Golden Rule was not my motto and precept, the torch that guided my footsteps.

But no man has a monopoly of conscience.

A conscientious man ought not to regard what may happen to him in this world.

Whenever you do a thing, tho' it can never be known but to yourself, ask yourself how you would act were all the world looking at you and act accordingly.