Quotes About Morality

An educated person must learn to act justly, beginning, first of all, with his thoughts, then later in his deeds. This is what it means to be educated.

My child, what does it matter, if you are in the right? Always follow the truth without caring about the result. Very often you may have to suffer injustice or unpleasant consequences for holding to the truth; but you must not, under any circumstances, abandon it.

There are no easy answers, but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right.

THE POLITICIAN If it wasn't for graft, you'd get a very low type of people in politics. Men without ambition. Jellyfish! CATHERINE Especially since you can't rob the people anyway. THE POLITICIAN Sure...How was that? CATHERINE What you rob, you spend. And what you spend goes back to the people. So where's the robbery? I read that in one of my father's books. THE POLITICIAN That book should be in every home!

This is the story of two men who met in a banana republic. One of them never did anything dishonest in his life except for one crazy minute. The other never did anything honest in his life except for one crazy minute.

Ethical dilemmas have a way of sneaking up on a person. If something smells funny, stay away from it. Or help get rid of it.

Notice that "I" is at the center of the word "ethical." There is no "they." Achieving the ethics of excellence is our individual assignment.

Your ethical muscle grows stronger every time you choose right over wrong.

Live according to the ethics of excellence, and you can always stand proud. Pride - not vanity, but dignity and self-respect - should carry a lot of weight in helping you make decisions. Let pride help you decide.

he never asked nor accepted any reward, because he was good and simple and did not think that one did good for a reward.

Hard to say what's right when all I wanna do is wrong.

A man's intention is a portrait of his conscience.

Deontology is nothing else than deference and reverence for life.

The right thing is to keep the right thing the right thing.

There is no law higher than truth.

To overcome evil with good is good, to resist evil by evil is evil.

He is not of us who is not affectionate to the little ones, and does not respect the old; and he is not of us, who does not order which is lawful, and prohibits that which is unlawful.

Ce lucru mai obisnuit decat minciuna, fie ca e vorba sa ascunzi de pilda slabiciunile zilnice ale unei sanatati despre care vrei sa se creada ca e robusta, sa ascunzi un viciu, sau sa te indrepti fara sa jignesti pe nimeni, spre locul pe care il preferi? E instrumentul de conservare cel ami necesar si cel mai intrebuintat.

The end justifies the means.

Beauty without virtue is like a rose without scent.

A big log is a shame to the fire, an evil person is a shame to the house.

A rich man is either a rogue or a rogue's heir. #billionaire

A rich man is either a rogue or a rogue's heir.

A rich man is either a scoundrel or the heir of a scoundrel