Quotes About Ethics

Always wash your hands, and always tell the truth.

What we do know absolutely is that human lives are worth more than grapes and that innocent-looking grapes on the table may disguise poisonous residues hidden deep inside where washing cannot reach.

When I became a mother, I was trying so hard, using reusable diapers, washing them, looking for organic supplies even though it's much more expensive, and facing so many challenges attempting to do the right thing.

I'm not the kind of person who is on television and in magazines every five minutes selling clothes or washing machines.

Respectability in this country was a bad word because people did things who were in respected professions that let down the entire nation, and we're washing away their sins yet.

I'm a logical woman and won't resort to washing dirty linen in public.

I think the country's getting disgusted with Washington partly because of the decline of civility in government.

We're told compassion comes not from generosity but from compliance. We're told kindness means raiding a man's hard-earned wages and sending them off to Washington so they - not you - may dole them out in courtesies and indulgences.

But I made one mistake which I would never repeat as a member of Congress when I was in Washington, and that was when I was elected I didn't go on trips because I was so afraid of having someone accuse me of taking junkets.

How was the wolf to blame, if the sheep were roaming free?

Let the ones who seek justice be just.

But do not make the mistake, Seraphina, of supposing that suffering ennobles anyone.

you twist logic to your own purposes." "It's a lawyer's duty," sniffed Phloxia,

Let the one who seeks justice be just.

How was the wolf to blame you if the sheep were roaming free?

Can I buy you a drink?" was most often accompanied by "I'm a banker" or "I'm just here on business." The latter was code for "I've got a wife at home but we can make some sort of arrangement.

A blend of good and bad characterized all humans, and to pretend to sort that out was an insult to human complexity. But at the same time, Sandro understood that people only tended to allow their own contradictions, and not those of others. It was OK to be murky to yourself, to know you weren't an angel, but other people had to be more cleanly divided into good and bad.

The poet Robert Graves said that what remains when a Christian loses their faith is the belief that Jesus remains the ideal person.

As a human being, I know I can never hope to have the depth and breadth of perspective to know whether any of my actions will ultimately harm or heal.

When kindness comes at the expense of truth, it is not a kindness worth having.

Taking the high road is hard work-- walking uphill requires strength and effort. Anyone can take the low road--walking downhill is easy.

Sometimes you have to break a few rules in life, especially when the stakes are high enough.

anyone who has no feelings for animals has a dead heart.

Es cuando hay Dios, cuando todo está permitido. Así que nadie tan ferozmente peligroso como el justo, cargado de razón.