Quotes About Ethics

Conscience keeps more people awake than coffee.

An American will go to hell for a bag of coffee.

...a commonwealth ruled by common-sense and common virtue...

Justice is the foundation of courage...

If you read someone else's diary, you get what you deserve.

Wilt thou seal up the avenues of ill? Pay every debt as if God wrote the bill.

When you base your life on principle, 99% of your decisions are already made.

...that freshness of feeling, that delicate honor which shrinks from wounding even a sentiment...

Every vice is only an exaggeration of a necessary & virtuous function.

Don't do what you'll have to find an excuse for.

Sin is a thing that writes itself across a man's face. It cannot be concealed. People talk sometimes of secret vices. There are no such things. If a wretched man has a vice, it shows itself in the lines of his mouth, the droop of his eyelids, the moulding of his hands even.

Your own property is concerned when your neighbor's house is on fire.

Don't fling your butt beside the trail and we won't fling your butt in jail.

A plain and simple answer for This riddle's what we wish: Does fishing make men liars, or Do only liars fish?

Beauty without virtue is a rose without fragrance.

The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.

The income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has.

But when there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned.

I always feel that I have two duties to perform with a parting guest: one, to see that he doesn't forget anything that is his; the other, to see that he doesn't take anything that is mine.

HOSPITALITY, n. The virtue which induces us to lodge and feed certain persons who are not in want of food and lodging.

Hatred is a feeling which leads to the extinction of values.

Those that think it permissible to tell white lies soon grow color-blind.

Whether the succeeding generation is to be more virtuous than their predecessors I cannot say; but I am sure they will have more worldly wisdom, and enough, I hope, to know that honesty is the 1st chapter in the book of wisdom.

I may be a liar, but at least I'm a gentleman.