Quotes About Ethics

Dishonesty is like a boomerang. About the time you think all is well, it hits you in the back of the head.

Man cannot pretend to be higher in ethics, spirituality, advancement, or civilization than other creatures and at the same time live by lower standards than the vulture or hyena.

Remember when you were considered an environmentalist when you didn't throw junk out the car window? I sure do miss that simpler, happier time.

Ethical and cultural desegregation. It is a contradiction in terms to scream race pride and equality while at the same time spurning Negro teachers and self-association.

One has to speak out and stand up for one's convictions. Inaction at a time of conflagration is inexcusable.

Laws are silent in time of war.

In many ways, our campaign this year will be the same as last time: We're still going to focus on fixing up basics and cleaning up ethics at City Hall.

Now it's time to focus on basics for people in our neighborhoods... and real ethics reform at City Hall.

President Trump and his family are complying with all the ethical rules, everything they need to do to step away from his businesses and be a full-time president.

All the time I pray to Buddha I keep on killing mosquitoes.

When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.

One of the misfortunes of our time is that in getting rid of false shame, we have killed off so much real shame as well.

If you have not been a villain at a certain point in time, you will never be a hero. And the day you are a hero, you may become a villain the next day.

I'll never stop eating animals, I'm sure, but I do think that for the benefit of everyone, the time has come to stop raising them industrially and stop eating them thoughtlessly

Manners carry the world for the moment, character for all time.

Each act is an island in time, to be judged on its own.

There's no more morality in world affairs, fundamentally, than there was at the time of Genghis Khan.

Everywhere, the ethical predicament of our time imposes itself with an urgency which suggests that even the question Have we anything to eat? will be answered not in material but in ethical terms.

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

Bibles are strong entrenchments. Where they abound, men cannot pursue wicked courses, and at the same time enjoy quiet conscience.

O tempora! O mores! O what times (are these)! what morals!

Morals do not come from the state and society. Morality deals with weightier matters that measure our thoughts, words, and deeds against universals that are true regardless of time and place.

A man has no right to occupy another man's time unnecessarily

I don't often agree with the RSPCA as I believe it is an animal's duty to be on my plate at supper time.