Quotes About Ethics

It is always the right time to do the right thing.

Integrity is what you do when no one is watching; its doing the right thing all the time, even when it may work to your disadvantage.

He who pays no attention to what his neighbor does, says or thinks, preferring to concentrate on making his own actions appropriate and justifiable, better uses his time.

Every time we do something # GOOD . We # RISE a little bit in our OWN eyes and the # REVERSE is just as # TRUE .

Killing Japanese didn't bother me very much at that time... I suppose if I had lost the war, I would have been tried as a war criminal.

Act right all the time, because someone's always watching.

If pigs could vote, the man with the slop bucket would be elected swineherd every time, no matter how much slaughtering he did on the side.

If there is ever a time that impeachment would be appropriate, this is certainly the time.

People aren't evil and people aren't good. They live how they can one day at a time. They come out of dust they go back to dust, dusty feet, no wings, and whose fault is that?

One thing I have learned in my time in politics is that if one of the parties is shameless, the other party cannot afford to be spineless.

Too often in time past, religion has brought forth criminal and shameful actions... How many evils has religion caused?

Intellect without humanity is not good enough...what the world is suffering from at the present time is not so much an overabundance of intellect as an insufficiency of humanity.

Every time we witness an act that we feel to be unjust and do not act, we become a party to injustice.

Even the best of us are at least part-time bastards.

Reflect upon the defects of your character: thoroughly realize their evils and the transient pleasures they give you, and firmly will that you shall try your best not to yield to them the next time.

The human body has absolutely no requirement for animal flesh. Nobody has ever been found face-down 20 yards from Burger King because they couldn't get their Whopper in time.

When a good man lends himself to the advocacy of slavery, he must, at least for a time, feel himself to be any where but at home, amongst his new thoughts, doctrines, and modes of reasoning.

Scoundrels [...] simply don't die. The ones who die are always the gentle, sweet, and beautiful people. [...] Scoundrels live a long time. The beautiful die young.

I do think the standards of the media have dropped to an all-time low in terms of credibility.

We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time.

The time has come for all good men to rise above principle.

The greatest question of our time is not communism vs. individualism, not Europe vs. America, not even the East vs. the West; it is whether men can bear to live without God.

Spend more time building your character than trying to build your platform.

It's time to realize that one cannot combat one injustice by invoking and using another injustice