Quotes About Ethics

fights you on patriotic principles; he robs you on business principles; he enslaves you on imperial principles.

An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.

No one in this world needs a mink coat but a mink.

A sense of wrongdoing is an enhancement of pleasure.

Evil and good are God's right hand and left.

Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil.

Of two evils choose the least.

Never throw mud. You may miss your mark; but you must have dirty hands.

I believe we are solely responsible for our choices, and we have to accept the consequences of every deed, word, and thought throughout our lifetime.

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

Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objects and principles.

I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.

All is fair in love and war.

There is no such thing as white lies; a lie is as black as a coalpit, and twice as foul.

Angling is an innocent cruelty.

Even were a cook to cook a fly, he would keep the breast for himself.

Vegetarianism is harmless enough, though it is apt to fill a man with wind and self-righteousness.

I thank Thee first because I was never robbed before; second, because although they took my purse they did not take my life; third, because although they took my all, it was not much; and fourth because it was I who was robbed, and not I who robbed.

Never join with your friend when he abuses his horse or his wife unless the one is to be sold, and the other to be buried.

Reprove your friends in secret, praise them openly.

The gentleman is a Christian product.

Justice is a concept. Muscle is the reality.

Do noble things, do not dream them all day long.

By his deeds we know a man.