Quotes About Ethics

All your scholarship, all your study of Shakespeare and Wordsworth would be in vain, if at the same time you do not build your character, and attain mastery over your thoughts and actions.

[F]alsehood of the tongue leads to that of the heart, and in time depraves all its good dispositions.

My dad once told me, he was like, 'The only time you should lie is when someone's holding a gun to your head and says 'Okay, lie or I'm going to shoot you.'' And that really stuck with me.

Overconsumption is the mother of all environmental problems. For the first time in the history of capitalism, consumption itself has become controversial.

The great crime of our time, says Vonnegut, was to do too much good secretly, too much harm openly.

I suggest that what we want to do is not to leave to posterity a great institution, but to leave behind a great tradition of journalism ably practiced in our time.

Every time you go to a party and take a picture and post that picture to Facebook, you're being a rat. You're being a narc.

The time is always right to do right

He plead insanity like they do now all the time. Sir, what would you have done in 1859?

The time for boring ethical discussions around disability is over. It's only through feelings of admiration, aspiration, curiosity and envy that we can move forward.

Just as you would not permit a fellow employee to steal a piece of office equipment, you shouldn't let anyone walk away with the time of his fellow managers.

We need to get back to a level of social responsibility that we haven't seen for a long time.

It seems everyone in the world is now a potential member of the paparazzi. Most of the time people ask if they can take a picture with their mobiles but increasingly they don't bother to ask.

Principles aren't of much account anyway, except at election time. After that you hang them up to let them season.

It is not noble to return evil for evil, at no time ought we to do an injury to our neighbors.

A man who pays his bills on time is soon forgotten.

One does not permit one's friends to be slandered in time of trouble.

On my way out I was even going to shake his hand, but I remembered just in time that I'd killed a man.

Well, the first time I ran into the term religion, people were asking whether you had any. You know, some people had religion and some people didn't have religion

There has never been a man mean and at the same time virtuous.

There's more time spent on teaching kids about recycling than on character development in the American schools.

The profound immoralities of our time are cruelty, indifference, injustice and the use of others as means rather than ends in themselves.

It's never really been that hard for me. I've never had any desire to eat meat. In fact, when I was a kid I would have a really difficult time eating meat at all.

I always felt, you don't have a good time doin crime, you may as well find a job.