Quotes About Conduct

My belief is that no human being or society composed of human beings ever did or ever will come to much unless their conduct was governed and guided by the love of some ethical ideal.

Self-love, as it happens to be well or ill conducted, constitutes virtue and vice.

Even in your smallest gestures, you express your sense of honor, if you have one.

Las actividades con una C son agradables de hacer, pero no tienen consecuencias, ni positivas ni negativas.

What is there in the precepts of science that keeps a scientist from doing evil?

What I admire about Austen (among hundreds of other commendable qualities) is her traditional rather than modern conception of morality. She sees it, as did Aristotle, Aquinas, and Marx, as a matter of public conduct, not as the inner light, interior emotions, what you happen to be feeling, what you find aesthetically alluring, and the like. She's an extremely tough-minded ethical realist in an increasingly corrupt, sentimentalist culture.

Giving up wrong deeds, exercise right action. Giving up wrong speech, exercise right speech. Giving up wrong thoughts, think good thoughts.

Unwholesome acts cannot bring wholesome results. The things a fool gains amount to nothing.

How can one respect people as members of the human race unless one holds them to a standard of conduct and truthfulness?

I know that as you gentlemen view such things, such conduct has no excuse for being. One may be the victim of an internal conflict between two illicit moods, yet nevertheless, as the law and the church see it, guilty of sin and crime. But the truth, none-the-less, is that they do exist in the human heart, law or no law, religion or no religion, and in scores of cases they motivate the actions of the victims. And we admit that they motivated the actions of Clyde Griffiths.

We are not noble by birth. We are noble only by virtue of the way we think, speak, and act.

There has to be some decorum left in politics and in American journalism as well. Our husbands are the candidates.

That liberty is a great thing we may know from our own feelings, and we may likewise judge so from the conduct of the white-people, in the late war.

I never think the ends justify the means.

In the end, North Korea's conduct may change only when its leadership does.

You can kill but don't cuss. Break any rule necessary to save the world but don't watch porn or even think about having sex.

When you treated things badly, things behaved badly.

If you're not prepared to do something in public, don't do it at all.

The soul grows into lovely habits as easily as into ugly ones, and the moment a life begins to blossom into beautiful words and deeds, that moment a new standard of conduct is established, and your eager neighbors look to you for a continuous manifestation of the good cheer, the sympathy, the ready wit, the comradeship, or the inspiration, you once showed yourself capable of. Bear figs for a season or two, and the world outside the orchard is very unwilling you should bear thistles.

I don't mind people going about unobtrusively doing good, but I can't stomach moral indignation.

And lock your hands to the table so they don't flail around or touch your hair.

To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.

I'm not in trouble, am I?" "No. Why would you be in trouble?" Because lately, Sadie was almost always in trouble. It was impossible to be eleven, with a sick sister, and for people to find your conduct beyond reproach. She was always saying the wrong thing, or being too loud, or demanding too much (time, love, food), even though she had not demanded more than what had been freely given before. "No reason.

Avoid the evil, and it will avoid thee.