Quotes About Ethics

Good men need no recommendation and bad men it wouldn't help.

My only policy is to profess evil and do good.

Fearful is the seductive power of goodness.

There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness.

Tattlers also and busy bodies, speaking things which they ought not.

Man's capacity for evil makes democracy necessary and man's capacity for good makes democracy possible.

When the freedom they wished for most was the freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and never was free again.

He who receives a good turn should never forget it; he who does one should never remember it.

Let no guilty man escape, if it can be avoided. No personal consideration should stand in the way of performing a public duty.

Let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth.

The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation.

Virtue, like a dowerless beauty, has more admirers than followers.

When you're in your nineties and looking back, it's not going to be how much money you made or how many awards you've won. It's really what did you stand for. Did you make a positive difference for people?

It's what you do that makes your soul, not the other way around.

You have much more power when you are working for the right thing than when you are working for the wrong thing.

Live virtuously, and you cannot die too soon, or live too long.

The attainment of justice is the highest human endeavor.

Conscience, as I understand it, is the impulse to do the right thing because it is right, regardless of personal ends, and has nothing whatever to do with the ability to distinguish between right and wrong.

The principles we live by, in business and in social life, are the most important part of happiness.

The needle of our conscience is as good a compass as any.

The happiest excitement in life is to be convinced that one is fighting for all one is worth on behalf of some clearly seen and deeply felt good.

Happy [is] the man who knows his duties!

He who never sacrificed a present to a future good, or a personal to a general one, can speak of happiness only as the blind speak of color.

We can be wise from goodness and good from wisdom.