Quotes About Ethics

Maybe this is karma.

The great thing about legal training is it really teaches you to lie.

Once you've started cheating, does it matter what your methods are?

I tell myself to look away, but the truth is, I don't want to look away. I want to be drawn into his gaze. Which is dumb. And wrong. He belongs to another woman, I remind myself sternly. He likes whiny, shouty, newsreadery-type women.

Does it matter if we're a bit old-fashioned?

There is no greater evil than men's failure to consult and to consider.

Truly, to tell lies is not honorable; but when the truth entails tremendous ruin, to speak dishonorably is pardonable.

A soul that is kind and intends justice discovers more than any sophist

I have nothing but contempt for the kind of governor who is afraid, for whatever reason, to follow the course that he knows is best for the State.

Of all vile things current on earth, none is so vile as money.

No yield to the dead! Never stab the fighter when he's down. Where's the glory, killing the dead twice over?

To be doing good deeds is man's most glorious task.

My basic principle is that you don't make decisions because they are easy; you don't make them because they are cheap; you don't make them because they're popular; you make them because they're right

I say that this crime is holy.

Money! Money's the curse of man, none greater. That's what wrecks cities, banishes men from homes, Tempts and deludes the most well-meaning soul, Pointing out the way to infamy and shame. - Creon

I would prefer even to fail with honor than to win by cheating.

The good befriend themselves.

The soul that has conceived one wickedness can nurse no good thereafter.

I am determined that never, if I can help it, Shall evil triumph over good. - Creon

Things gained by unjust fraud are never secure

I've never known an honest man who can plead so well for any plea whatever.

Tis better not to be than to vilely live. Greedy of gain is every barbarous tribe.

Say, can the mind be noble, where the stream Of gratitude is withered from the spring?

And whoever places a friend above the good of his own country, he is nothing.