Quotes about Ethics And Values

an intellectual betrayed his mission if he was not the most constant defender of civilization and freedom of thought

You can fight only for something you love. You can love only what you respect. You can respect only what you know.

He that serves God for money will serve the devil for better wages.' 

I can't really speak for the right, but it seems to me that people on the right are less bothered about a virtuous self-image.

don't let "reputation" get mixed up with your moral purpose or your will power; they are important. Make sure "reputation" is in that box in the bottom drawer marked "matters of indifference

A man without conscience is but a poor creature...

What I say is a gentleman's a gentleman even if he does drive a tractor.

I'm one of those that believes you can't be one kind of a man and another kind of president.

Man's true nature being lost, everything becomes his nature; as, his true good being lost, everything becomes his good.

Never judge a philosophy by its abuse.

Intent matters. Integrity matters. Courage matters. If you have the three, nothing else matters

If honor be your clothing, the suit will last a lifetime; but if clothing be your honor, it will soon be worn threadbare.

A true woman of virtue is one who will socialize with every man on earth, and doesn't share her body with any of them.

When faith is lost, when honor dies, the man is dead.

It is better to be a little too strict than too liberal.

If we cannot have moral feelings against homosexuality, can we have it against murder? Can we have it against other things?

You're either a person with a conscience, or you're not. I think I've got quite a fine conscience.

One of its most powerful weapons has always been 'barbarity': 'we' know that 'we' are civilised by contrasting ourselves with those we deem to be un-civilised, with those who do not - or cannot be trusted to - share our values.

What's right isn't always popular. What's popular isn't always right.

Hangi kötülüÄŸe tahammül edeceÄŸimiz hangi iyiliÄŸin peÅŸinde olduÄŸumuza baÄŸl?d?r.

I want all the aspiring models out there to know that it's definitely not just a pretty face that matters!

Lastly, people seemed to think that morality was the same thing as being politically correct, and it wasn't. Some of the most deeply moral people I knew were least politically correct, because they actually worried about good and evil, not just what they were told was good or bad.

Die when I may, I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

You've got to be known for what you're running on, what principles.