Quotes About Ethics

One must think like a hero merely to behave like a decent human being.

He is rather an elegant creature and I enjoy looking at him. He pleases me as a man and as a human being. Brilliance, intellectually speaking, is not required of the ministry, but integrity is.

I believe most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise.

If you're for the right thing, you do it without thinking.

In all the institutions I try to be present and accountable for all I do and leave undone. I know that eventually I shall have to be present and accountable n the presence of God. I do not wish to be found wanting.

See, you don't have to think about doing the right thing. If you're for the right thing, then you do it without thinking.

The needs of a society determine its ethics

In order to be profoundly dishonest, a person must have one of two qualities: either he is unscrupulously ambitious, or he is unswervingly egocentric. He must believe that for his ends to be served all things and people can justifiably be shifted about, or that he is the center not only of his own world but of the worlds which others inhabit.

Don't do anything that you think is wrong. Just do what you think is right, and then be ready to back it up even with your life.

You don't have to think about doing the right thing. If you're for the right thing, then you do it without thinking.

I wish we could stop the little lies. I don't mean that one has to be brutally frank. I don't believe that we should be brutal about anything, however, it is wonderfully liberating to be honest. One does not have to tell all that one knows, but we should be careful what we say is the truth.

Your reputation is the most important thing you'll never have. Not clothes, nor money, not the big cars you may drive. If your reputation is good, you can achieve anything you want in the world.

See you don't have to think about doing the right thing. If you're for the right thing you do it without thinking.

Teachers of my early youth Taught forgiveness stressed the truth Here then is my Christian lack: If I'm struck then I'll strike back.

Annie, everybody has a policy. In this world you have to have a policy. Now, my policy is I don't treat colored people.

Mother whispered, 'See, you don't have to think about doing the right thing, If you're for the right thing, then you do it without thinking.

Mother whispered, "See, you don't have to think about doing the right thing. If you're for the right thing, then you do it without thinking.

The needs of a society determine its ethics, and in the Black American ghettos the hero is that man who is offered only the crumbs from his country's table but by ingenuity and courage is able to take for himself a Lucullan feast.

In order to be profoundly dishonest, a person must have one of two qualities: either he is unscrupulously ambitious, or he is unswervingly egocentric.

Avarice cripples virtue and lies in ambush for honesty.

It's all right if we do a little robbing now." This belief appeals particularly to one who is unable to compete legally with his fellow citizens.

Mom, did he mean he would have to kill my cat?" He was clutching the small animal so tightly I thought he himself might put an end to its miserable life. "Yes, if no one wanted it, they'd do away with it." "But Mom, isn't that place called a place for the protection of animals?

The needs of a society determine its ethics, and in the Black American ghettos the hero is that man who is offered only the crumbs from his country's table but by ingenuity and courage is able to take for himself a Lucullan feast.

Tisn't decent, surely!" Bertha rolled her eyes and Maddie laughed. "There's little decency to good loving," Maddie said sagely. "If 'tis decent, it isn't much fun.