Quotes About Ethics

Sometimes you have to steer away from the crowd in order to be a better person. It's not always easy, that's for sure. But it's right. And sometimes doing the right thing feels good, even if it does end up in a trip to the principal's office.

Whether it's right or wrong, fight for what you believe in.

A veces hay que alejarse de la multitud para ser una mejor persona. No siempre es fácil, eso es seguro. Pero es correcto. Y a veces hacer lo correcto se siente muy bien.

Sometimes good men need to do things that aren't good. Right?" I ruffle his hair. Luis is way more innocent than I was at his age. "You know, I think you're gonna be the smartest Fuentes yet, little bro.

To set up as a standard of public morality a notion which can neither be defined nor conceived is to open the door to every kind of tyranny.

Evil, when we are in its power, is not felt as evil, but as a necessity, even a duty.

As soon as men know that they can kill without fear of punishment or blame, they kill or at least they encourage killers with approving smiles.

Il principale fondamento della moralità dell'individuo e di un popolo e la stima costante e profonda che esso ha di sé e la cura che ha a conservarsela, la sensibilità sul proprio onore. Un uomo senza amor proprio non può essere giusto, onesto e virtuoso.

You're so earnest about morality that I hate to think how essentially immoral you must be underneath.

A country that tolerates evil means- evil manners, standards of ethics-for a generation, will be so poisoned that it never will have any good end.

Hypocrisy wears hard on a man who at heart isn't that way.

Doing the right thing is actually the right thing to do.

Never leave honor to chance

Do what's right while the sun still shines.

Stand for what you believe is right inside or outside the ring.

From forty till fifty a man is at heart either a stoic or a satyr.

Since the business of politics is the conciliation of differing interests, justice must not merely be done, but to be seen to be done.

I think that people should be free to to engage in any sexual practices they choose. They should draw the line at goats,though.

REVENGE is a kind of wild justice; which the more man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.

Mixture of lie doeth ever add pleasure.

It's ill-luck to serve a bad man,

Ah! how true it was that conscience was a thousand swords.

Everywhere he found his precept checkmated by his example.

Play up! play up! and play the game!