Quotes About Ethics

The virtuous will be sure to speak uprightly; but those whose speech is upright may not be virtuous.

People with virtue must speak out; People who speak are not all virtuous.

Virtue is not solitary; it is bound to have neighbors

I am a vegan out of my love and respect for animals, as well as respect for myself.

Love does not imply pacifism.

I believe there are certain things that cannot be bought -- loyalty, friendship, health, love and an American League pennant.

We need to figure out how to have the things we love, and not destroy the world.

A woman's honor rests on manly love.

I love him who is ashamed when the dice fall in his favour, and who then asketh: "Am I a dishonest player?" - for he is willing to succumb.

Civilization is first of all a moral thing. Without truth, respect for duty, love of neighbor, and virtue, everything is destroyed. The morality of a society is alone the basis of civilization.

The good hate sin because they love virtue. [Lat., Oderunt peccare boni virtutis amore.]

I don't need to make money destroying my environment. Why don't I just love it and figure out a way to be more sustainable?

Integrity is not about the action but its purpose. Are you doing it for everyone's wellbeing or for your own benefit?

To do as one would be done by, and to love one's neighbour as oneself, constitute the ideal perfection of utilitarian morality

Let us ask what is best - not what is customary. Let us love temperance - let us be just - let us refrain from bloodshed.

I love 'Shattered Glass.' It's one of my favorite movies. I think it's just brilliant.

Good sense, good health, good conscience, and good fame,--all these belong to virtue, and all prove that virtue has a title to your love.

Most dangerous is that temptation that doth goad us on to sin in loving virtue.

No longer talk at all about the kind of man that a good man ought to be, but be such

Moralists love to discourse on the hollowness of success; about the hollowness of failure they are silent.

I could ask the Phillies to keep me on to add to my statistics, but my love for the game won't let me do that.

I'm not in love with David Petraeus. But I think he does present a terrific role model.

As the love of the heavens makes us heavenly, the love of virtue virtuous, so doth the love of the world make one become worldly.

A first impulse was never a crime.