Quotes About Ethics

A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

The law locks up both man and woman Who steals the goose from off the common, But lets the great felon loose Who steals the common from the goose.

If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.

The aim of law is the maximum gratification of the nervous system of man.

The English laws punish vice; the Chinese laws do more, they reward virtue.

Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Cae-

A lawyer must first get on, then get honor, and then get honest.

It is a secret worth knowing that lawyers rarely go to law.

A lawyer's opinion is worth nothing unless paid for.

Most good lawyers live well, work hard, and die poor.

A liberal is a man who is willing to spend somebody else's money.

Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having.

It is a fair summary of history to say that the safeguards of liberty have frequently been forged in cases involving not very nice people.

By physical liberty I mean the right to do anything which does not interfere with the happiness of another. By intellectual liberty I mean the right to think wrong.

Without duty, life is soft and boneless; it cannot hold itself together.

It has come to be practically a sort of rule in literature that a man, having once shown himself capable of original writing, is entitled thenceforth to steal from the writings of others at discretion.

That a lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies; That a lie which is all a lie may be met and fought with outright - But a lie which is part a truth is a harder matter to fight.'

What once were vices are now manners.

Abortion is advocated only by persons who have themselves been born.

Wherever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm.

In medicine, sins of commission are mortal, sins of omission venial.

It is the duty of a doctor to prolong life and it is not his duty to prolong the act of dying.

The double standard of morality will survive in this world so long as the woman whose husband has been lured away is favoured with the sympathetic tears of other women, and a man whose wife has made off is laughed at by other men.

There are three classes of men-lovers of wisdom, lovers of honour, lovers of gain.