3 Florence Nightingale Quotes on Ethics

Florence Nightingale quotes on ethics

4. Asceticism is the trifling of an enthusiast with his power, a puerile coquetting with his selfishness or his vanity, in the absence of any sufficiently great object to employ the first or overcome the last.

8. It may seem a strange principle to enunciate as the very first requirement in a hospital that it should do the sick no harm.

41. Moral activity? There is scarcely such a thing possible! Everything is sketchy. The world does nothing but sketch.