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Quotes About Ethics

Injustice is relatively easy to bear; it is justice that hurts.
~ H. L. Mencken
Conscience is the inner voice which warns us somebody may be looking.
~ H. L. Mencken
Immorality: The morality of those who are having a better time.
~ H. L. Mencken
find myself suddenly in the world and I recognize that I have one right alone: That of demanding human behavior from the other. One duty alone: That of not renouncing my freedom through my choices.18
~ James H. Cone
Life's more important than a living. So many people who make a living are making death, not life. Don't ever join them. They're the gravediggers of our civilization -- the safe men, the compromisers, the money-makers, the muddlers-through.
~ James Hilton
Just because a person is capable of wickedness, doesn't mean they will act upon it.
~ James Hilton ( Cowboy)
I believe that people are more good than bad. But at the end of the day, if we're true to those things in us that feel true and feel right, the world gets a little better each day
~ James Hilton ( Cowboy)
If you have not chosen to stand for something bigger than yourself, you will have lived out your life being smaller than yourself.
~ James Hilton ( Cowboy)
There comes a time in your life when you Do what is right, not what is easy nor what is popular.
~ James Hilton ( Cowboy)
There comes a time in your life when you do what is right, not what is easy nor what is popular.
~ James Hilton ( Cowboy)
Some people say they believe in karma. Most of them just believe in revenge.
~ James Hilton ( Cowboy)
Some people say they believe in karma. But most of them just believe in revenge.
~ James Hilton ( Cowboy)
If you take care of your character, your reputation will take care of itself.
~ James Hilton ( Cowboy)
WHEN THE DEVIL IGNORES YA, THEN YA KNOW YER DOIN SOMETHIN WRONG. . WHEN THE DEVIL COMES AT YA, MAYBE IT'S 'CAUSE YER TRYIN' TO DO SOMETHIN' RIGHT.
~ James Hilton ( Cowboy)
Sometimes you have to do things you don't want to do because it's the right thing. But sometimes you have to put yourself first.
~ James Hilton ( Cowboy)
Try to be a good person, because you think it's the right thing to do. If you commit fewer bad acts there will be fewer bad acts, maybe other people will join in committing fewer bad acts, and in time there will be fewer and fewer of them.
~ James Hilton ( Cowboy)
We aren't born good or bad. Maybe we're born with tendencies either way, but its the way we live your life that matters.
~ James Hilton ( Cowboy)
Alway's keep true to yourself. Never be ashamed of doing what is right. Decide what you think is right and stick to it.
~ James Hilton ( Cowboy)
A word of good advice. "It's not wise to shit where you eat.
~ James Hilton ( Cowboy)
The true measure of a person is how they treat you when others are not looking.
~ James Hilton ( Cowboy)
You can't be with someone who doesn't understand the wrong in what they're doing. The same way you can't be with someone who doesn't worry about you, and doesn't take your feelings into consideration as they would their own.
~ James Hilton ( Cowboy)
One life is all we have, and we live it as we believe in living it…
~ James Hilton ( Cowboy)
What's wrong with people? That don't value their life or the life of others. Were they born with parts missing or did it fall out somewhere along the way?
~ James Hilton ( Cowboy)
Your little choices good or bad, is up to you.
~ James Hilton ( Cowboy)