Quotes About Ethics

The sin they do by two and two they must pay for one by one.

So many laws argue so many sins.

It is not alone what we do, but also what we do not do, for which we are accountable.

Skepticism means, not intellectual doubt alone, but moral doubt.

If you put a chain around the neck of a slave, the other end fastens itself around your own.

Corrupted freemen are the worst slaves.

It is just as hard to do your duty when men are sneering at you as when they are shooting at you.

It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.

Let no one be willing to speak ill of the absent.

I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam; I looked into the soul of the boy next to me.

I have never been able to understand why pigeon-shooting at Hurlingham should be refined and polite, while a rat-killing match in Whitechapel is low.

When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport: wlien the tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.

To see what is right, and not do it, is want of courage.

Since when do grown men and women, who presume to hold high government office and exercise what they think of as "moral leadership," require ethics officers to tell them whether it is or isn't permissible to grab the secretary's behind or redirect public funds to their own personal advantage?

Vice Is nice But a little virtue Won't hurt you.

The Department of Justice is committed to asking one central question of everything we do: What is the right thing to do? Now that can produce debate, and I want it to be spirited debate. I want the lawyers of America to be able to call me and tell me: Janet, have you lost your mind?

The voice of conscience is so delicate that it is easy to stifle it; but it is also so clear that it is impossible to mistake it.

I place a high moral value on the way people behave. I find it repellent to have a lot, and to behave with anything other than courtesy in the old sense of the word-politeness of the heart, a gentleness of the spirit.

Character is the real foundation of all worthwhile success.

'Tis the motive exalts the action, 'Tis the doing, and not the deed.

The sun shines even on the wicked.

An ambassador is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the good of his country.

Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred.

Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.