Quotes About Ethics

It is every intelligent man's experience that evildoing recoils on the doer sooner or later.

Sooner or later, we sell out for money.

Sooner or later a man has simply got to do what he thinks is right, no matter what other people, or the courts, or his friends, or his enemies, or God himself may tell him.

I'm not a sore loser.

You can't be a sore loser or a sore fan.

The criminal law is not meant to respond to every sorrow and grief.

However, without considering this connection, there is no doubt but that more good than evil, more delight than sorrow, arises from compassion itself; there being so many things which balance the sorrow of it.

I feel sorry for many politicians... we expect them to be completely consistent and moralised when we're not.

Curses on the law! Most of my fellow citizens are the sorry consequences of uncommitted abortions.

I am sorry for causing anyone to lose faith in sport.

I've never been one to take glee in anyone's demise, and when I saw Jerry Sandusky walk out in handcuffs, I did kind of feel a bit sorry for him, even though the jury found him to do some horrific things; I was like, 'His life is over.'

It would be a sorry world in which corporations engaged in fraud could pull the screen of the First Amendment over any investigation of their scheme.

The mistake that I made was that I was engaged in a consensual relationship with a woman who was not my wife. That is a mistake for which I am very sorry.

I guarantee you 80 percent of this country will stop watching cricket if they did not bet on a match. Every single person bets I am sorry to say.

I'm sorry Alex Jones, but the content that InfoWars has been putting out is just flat out lies. You are entitled to say whatever it is that you want, that is fine; you are not entitled to a megaphone if that information is false.

No period of history has ever been great or ever can be that does not act on some sort of high, idealistic motives, and idealism in our time has been shoved aside, and we are paying the penalty for it.

Cruelty would be delicious if one could only find some sort of cruelty that didn't really hurt.

There is no praise to bear the sort that you put in your pocket.

If the tax loop holes that allow tax avoidance were shut down, it would go some way to sorting out our finances, would it not?

Mob justice is not justice. Justice sought by violence is not justice.

Convinced that behavior and conduct are every bit as important as skills and expertise, I sought to build the firm into an enduring, values-based institution.

I never sought nor gained personal benefit in school or job applications based on my heritage.

Don't sell your soul to buy peanuts for the monkeys.

Science without conscience is the death of the soul.