Quotes About Ethics

In time of war the loudest patriots are the greatest profiteers.

What an occupation! To sit and flay your fellow men and then offer their skins for sale and expect them to buy them.

Troy: "Then when I saw that gal [Alberta]...she firmed up my backbone. And I got to thinking that if I tried...I just might be able to steal second.

Todo político es un empleado de la sociedad pagado de dinero del contribuyente. Tener éxito es su obligación y no objeto de exaltación. El político que no se considera siervo de la sociedad, sino que se sirve de ella, no es digno del cargo que ocupa

The root of a nation's misfortunes has to be sought in the moral failings of the government.

Frankly, if you do politics, you should not be thinking about your dignity.

I think I should be active politically. Because I look upon myself as a politician. That's not a dirty work you know. Some people think that there are something wrong with politicians. Of course, something wrong with some politicians.

When about to commit a base deed, respect thyself, though there is no witness.

Propaganda is the art of persuading others of what you don't believe yourself.

Those who think it is permissible to tell white lies soon grow color-blind.

Those that think it permissible to tell white lies soon grow color blind.

Honest was Sodom! YOUR theology is a slime-pit of gibberish become ethics. In YOUR world, where ignorance and deceit constitute felicity, everything ends miserably besmirched with fratricidal blood.

A conscience is like a baby. It has to go to sleep before you can.

A fellow who says he has never told a lie has just told one.

A good name, like good will, is attained by many actions and may be lost by one.

Many things are worse than defeat,and compromise with evil is one of them.

No punishment of the unrighteous has ever been too severe in the eyes of the righteous.

One should be more concerned about what his conscience whispers than about what other people shout.

Peace won by the compromise of principles is a short-lived achievement.

Practicing the Golden Rule is not a sacrifice; it is an investment.

The greatest paradox of them all is to speak of "civilized warfare."

There is a growing suspicion that what the world needs now is a religion that will cover the other six days of the week.

Those who deny the first principle should be flogged or burned until they admit that it is not the same thing to be burned and not burned, or whipped and not whipped.

Ideals may tell us something important about what we would like to be. But compromises tell us who we are.