Quotes About Ethics

There is no such thing as a good influence, Mr. Gray. All influence is immoral - immoral from the scientific point of view.

Only she is chaste whom none has invited

Video meliora proboque, deteriora sequor.

I see and approve of the better, but I follow the worse.

Siqua metu dempto casta est, ea denique casta est; quae, quia non liceat, non facit, illa facit

Ceza kald?r?labilir; ama suç insan?n içinde sonsuza kadar yaÅŸar.

When a man ain't got no ideas of his own, he'd ought to be kind o' careful who he borrows 'em from.

I thought there should in truth be heavy damages for malpractice on human souls.

I keep hearing this fucking thing that guns don't kill people, but people kill people. If that's the case, why do we give people guns when they go to war? Why not just send the people?

It's sad, y'know, what money does to people.

One prefers, of course, on all occasions to be stainless and above reproach, but, failing that, the next best thing is unquestionably to have got rid of the body.

Knowing what moral values and ethics are will not guarantee that good decisions will be made, but it will allow us to recognize that some problems have moral dimensions.

I'm] as broke as the ten commandments.

You can't win integrity and honor from games. You can only earn them from living a life dedicated to those ideals.

darkness does not always equate to evil, just as light does not always bring good.

To find a man's true character, play golf with him.

there occurred to me the simple epitaph which, when I am no more, I intend to have inscribed on my tombstone. It was this: He was a man who acted from the best motives. There is one born every minute.

In his normal state he would not strike a lamb. I've known him to do it' 'Do what?' 'Not strike lambs

You can't press your suit and another fellow's trousers simultaneously.

He was rigidly truthful, where the issue concerned only himself. Where it was a case of saving a friend, he was prepared to act in a manner reminiscent of an American expert witness.

He's only got two sides, a bad side and a worse side

what is a pleasant voice if the soul be vile?

I suppose the cave-woman sometimes felt rather relieved when everything was settled for her with a club, but I'm sure the caveman must have had a hard time ridding himself of the thought that he had behaved like a cad and taken a mean advantage.

Lady Constance conveyed the impression that anybody who had the choice between stealing anything from her and stirring up a nest of hornets with a short walking-stick would do well to choose the hornets.