Quotes About Ethics

Feelings are not wrong, but you are accountable for the behavior you use to satisfy those feelings.

If a flower you covet, straightway you are told it is another's.

she wants me to embrace her, but I do not want to abuse eros, or her.

LAURA. There are some circumstances in a family which through honor and conscience one is forced to conceal from the whole world—— DOCTOR.

You can put law on paper but that don't make it right.

You die how you live.

Will I end up in Hell along with the Hamburger Helping Hand, Joe Camel and Wendy, the Snapple Lady?

He was furious that the music house wanted forty grand. He wanted us to Jew them down

It is not power that corrupts but fear. Fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it and fear of the scourge of power corrupts those who are subject to it.

There are days when you just don't feel all that evil. You don't become a world-class villain overnight. -Dr. Impossible

I hate cheating. I won't put up with it. I don't do it myself.

Let me give you a tip on a clue to men's characters: the man who damns money has obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it has earned it.

Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.

The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live.

In this world, either you're virtuous or you enjoy yourself. Not both, lady, not both.

Love should be treated like a business deal, but every business deal has its own terms and its own currency. And in love, the currency is virtue. You love people not for what you do for them or what they do for you. You love them for the values, the virtues, which they have achieved in their own character.

A viler evil than to murder a man, is to sell him suicide as an act of virtue.

The man who damns money has obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it has earned it.

There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil.

And what, incidentally, do you think integrity is? The ability not to pick a watch out of your neighbor's pocket? No, it's not as easy as that. If that were all, I'd say ninety-five percent of humanity were honest, upright men. Only, as you can see, they aren't. Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.

A rational man never distorts or corrupts his own standards and judgment in order to appeal to the irrationality, stupidity, or dishonesty of others.

Only a man of integrity can possess the virtue of honesty, since only the faking of one's consciousness can permit the faking of existence.

There can be no compromise on moral principles.

A building has integrity just like a man. And just as seldom.