Quotes About Ethics

None But such as are good men can give good things, And that which is not good, is not delicious To a well-govern'd and wise appetite.

... no human actions ever were intended by the Maker of men to be guided by balances of expediency, but by balances of justice.

I think bullfights are for men who aren't very brave and wish they were.

This was an evil beyond thinking. The killing of a man was not so evil as the killing of a boat. For a boat does not have sons, and a boat cannot protect itself, and a wounded boat does not heal.

Judgement is given to men that they may use it. Because it may be used erroneously, are men to be told that they ought not to use it at all?

That a thing is peculiar; is no argument for its being blamable; since the most criminal actions are to a being like man not more unnatural than most of the virtues.

Man is most happy, when his own actions are arguments and examples of his virtue.

First the grub, then the morals.

Rather perish than hate and fear, and twice rather perish than make oneself hated and feared — this must some day become the highest maxim for every single commonwealth.

Let's not talk so much about vice. I'm against vice in all forms.

Virtue and Happiness are Mother and Daughter.

Now, my mom always said two wrongs don't make a right. But she never said anything about four wrongs, and that always left me confused.

The only thing a lawyer won't question is the legitimacy of his mother.

I don't want some mom whose son may have recently died to see the commander in chief playing golf.

Mom raised us to believe that every lie puts something out there in the world that's inevitably going to come back and bite you in the petunia.

I'm in a no-win situation. If I have my kids in the show, I'm exploiting them. If I don't, people will think I'm not a hands-on mom.

There's no such thing as good money or bad money.There's just money.

If you want money more than anything, you'll be bought and sold your whole life.

Use money and love people. Don't love money and use people.

I have committed many sins in my life. But stealing money from the government, from the people, is not one of them.

When plunder becomes a way of life, men create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it.

If we fight for money, I'll stop hitting you when you ask me to. If we fight for honor, I'll stop hitting you when I feel like it.

If you want to know what a man is really like, take notice of how he acts when he loses money.

I like when money makes a difference but don't make you different