Quotes About Ethics

It is not always for virtue's sake that women are virtuous.

It is not always from valor or from chastity that men are brave, and women chaste.

The courage of a great many men, and the virtue of a great many women, are the effect of vanity, shame, and especially a suitabletemperament.

Generally speaking, the greater a woman's beauty, the greater her modesty.

What was money that it should make such dreadful things of men and women?

Dally not with mony or women. [Dally not with money or women.]

We all know that men and women can be good without faith. And we also know that faith is an incredibly important source of goodness in our country.

We know that men and women can be good without faith. We know that.

It's not that women are less corruptible than men are, it's that women have had less chance to become corrupt.

I am a strict monogamist: it is twenty years since I last went to bed with two women at once, and then I was in my cups and not myself.

Women have, commonly, a very positive moral sense; that which they will, is right; that which they reject, is wrong; and their will, in most cases, ends by settling the moral.

Research shows the presence of women raises the standards of ethical behavior and lowers corruption.

Virtue in women is perhaps a question of temperament.

Women, perhaps even require a little hypocrisy.

Protestant women may take the pill. Roman Catholic women must keep taking The Tablet.

Well, [bad] times like that bring out the best in some people and the worst in others.

But there are many men-and women-who do things in a time of war that they wouldn't dream of doing in peacetime, and all for the common good.

You take advantage of your position as a famous actor to meet women.

The chaste woman who teases is worse than a streetwalker.

As she read the ten commandments for the first time, a Chinese woman said, "I don't see how anyone can very well get on without them."

65% of people say that cheating on your income tax is worse than cheating on your spouse. The other 35% were women.

Right now women are using surrogates because they can't be pregnant. What worries me is the possibility that soon they'll use surrogates because they don't want to be pregnant.

Maybe that's because there are so few women lobbyists; if they're there, it's for something they strongly believe in, not just for financial gain.

But certainly in the short term, or even the long term, I would not support repeal of Roe v. Wade, which would then force X number of women in America to [undergo] illegal and dangerous operations.