Simply use the following quotes in your GS Paper-4 (Ethics Paper) for adding that extra marks.

1. The nature and purpose of ethics

Morality is a private and costly luxury.
Henry Adams
 
Action indeed is the sole medium of expression for ethics.
Jane Addams
 
Morality may consist solely in the courage of making a choice.
Leon Blum
 
Grub first, then ethics.
Bertolt Brecht
 
Morality is the custom of one’s country and the current feeling of one’s peers.
Samuel Butler
 
Every man, in his own opinion, forms an exception to the ordinary rules of morality.
William Hazlitt
 
Ordinary morality is innate in my view.
Christopher Hitchens
 
Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.
Immanuel Kant
 
Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual.
Friedrich Nietzsche
 
Morality is not just any old topic in psychology but close to our conception of the meaning of life. Moral goodness is what gives each of us the sense that we are worthy human beings.
Steven Pinker
 
Taste is the only morality. Tell me what you like and I’ll tell you what you are.
John Ruskin
 
Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself.
Bertrand Russell
 
The first step in the evolution of ethics is a sense of solidarity with other human beings.
Albert Schweitzer
 
Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life.
Albert Schweitzer
 
At the descriptive level, certainly, you would expect different cultures to develop different sorts of ethics and obviously they have; that doesn’t mean that you can’t think of overarching ethical principles you would want people to follow in all kinds of places.
Peter Singer
 
We see things like reciprocity which are fairly central to our view of ethics. But if you’re talking about a set of worked-out rules on what we are supposed to do then, yes, it is a human product.
Peter Singer
 

2. Ethics and emotion

Compassion is the basis of morality.
Arthur Schopenhauer
 
A system of morality that is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception that has nothing sound in it and nothing true.
Socrates
 

3. Ethics and faith

Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith.
Alexis de Tocqueville
 

4. Ethics and intuition

I would like us to think about it more explicitly, and not take our intuitions as the given of ethics, but rather to reflect on it, and be more open about the fact that something is an ethical issues and think what we ought to do about it.
Peter Singer
 
Morality is only moral when it is voluntary.
Lincoln Steffens
 

5. Ethics and language

Morality, like language, is an invented structure for conserving and communicating order. And morality is learned, like language, by mimicking and remembering.
Jane Rule
 

6. Ethics and reason

The rules of morality are not the conclusion of our reason.
David Hume
 

7. Ethics and the arts

A novel that does not uncover a hitherto unknown segment of existence is immoral. Knowledge is the novel’s only morality.
Milan Kundera
 
The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind.
D. H. Lawrence
 

8. Ethics and the human sciences

History shows that where ethics and economics come in conflict, victory is always with economics. Vested interests have never been known to have willingly divested themselves unless there was sufficient force to compel them.
B. R. Ambedkar
 
We learned in World War II that no single nation holds a monopoly on wisdom, morality or right to power, but that we must fight for the weak and promote democracy.
Joe Baca
 
Consciousness permits us to develop the instruments of culture – morality and justice, religion, art, economics and politics, science and technology. Those instruments allow us some measure of freedom in the confrontation with nature.
Antonio Damasio
 
The science of morality is about maximizing psychological and social health. It’s really no more inflammatory than that.
Sam Harris
 
Money, not morality, is the principle commerce of civilized nations.
Thomas Jefferson
 
The stirrings of morality emerge early in childhood. Toddlers spontaneously offer toys and help to others and try to comfort people they see in distress.
Steven Pinker
 
Where there is politics or economics, there is no morality.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
 

9. Ethics and the natural sciences

My personal conviction is that science is concerned wholly with truth, not with ethics.
Arthur Keith
 
Science by itself has no moral dimension. But it does seek to establish truth. And upon this truth morality can be built.
William Masters
 

10. Ethics and religious knowledge systems

A people and their religion must be judged by social standards based on social ethics. No other standard would have any meaning if religion is held to be a necessary good for the well-being of the people.
B. R. Ambedkar
 
The greatest tragedy in mankind’s entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.
Arthur C. Clarke
 
I do not believe in immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern with no superhuman authority behind it.
Albert Einstein
 
Religion without morality is a superstition and a curse, and morality without religion is impossible.
Mark Hopkins
 
Teach a child what is wise, that is morality. Teach him what is wise and beautiful, that is religion!
Thomas Huxley
 
I’m very much a Christian in ideals and ethics, especially in terms of belief in fairness, a deep-set obligation to others, and the virtues of charity, tolerance and generosity that we associate with traditional Christian teaching.
E. O. Wilson