Quotes About Ethics

So our livesIn acts exemplary, not only winOurselves good names, but doth to others giveMatter for virtuous deeds, by which we live.

They're only truly great who are truly good.

Act the way you'd like to be and soon you'll be the way you act.

Moderation in the pursuit of liberty is no virtue;

Ought one ever to play at make-believe with a full-grown man for any consideration whatever—even though he be a parson, and a possible father-in-law? There's a case of conscience for you!

the economically more powerful culture may not be the more powerful culture spiritually and morally.

However, the reason for Paul's appeal to nature and conscience is not primarily to suggest that human beings have an intrinsic inner guide for correct ethical conduct. It is rather to assert that even those who do not have the revealed Law do have an inner sense of right and wrong, but have failed to be obedient to the light they have even as the Jews have failed to keep the Law.

There is a mercy which is weakness, and even treason against the common good.

Errors look so very ugly in persons of small means one feels they are taking quite a liberty in going astray whereas people of fortune may naturally indulge in a few delinquencies.

The law's made to take care o' raskills.

There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

Be courteous, be obliging, but don't give yourself over to be melted down for the benefit of the tallow trade.

We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.

O may I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live again In minds made better by their presence; live In pulses stirred to generosity, In deeds of daring rectitude...

Keep true. Never be ashamed of doing right. Decide what you think is right and stick to it.

Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.

Chemical cheating will be decisively routed when fans become properly repelled by it. They will recoil in disgust when they understand that athletes who are chemically propelled to victory do not merely overvalue winning, they misunderstand why winning is properly valued.

Sex education in the modern manner has been well-described as plumbing for hedonists.

From visible habits we make inferences as to the invisible attributes of the soul. Therefore, statecraft is soulcraft.

Almost everyone will be nice to almost everyone, using money taken from a few.

In war the moral is to the material as three to one. Napoleon

Time was when much of lawyering consisted (according to turn-of-the-century lawyer and statesman Elihu Root) in "telling would-be clients that they are damned fool's, and should stop.

Sport does not just build character, it reveals it.

Crimes, like virtues, are their own rewards.