Quotes About Ethics

I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.

If vice and corruption prevail, liberty cannot subsist; but if virtue have the advantage, arbitrary power cannot be established.

Within the confines of the lecture hall, no other virtue exists but plain intellectual integrity.

Where the roots of private virtue are diseased, the fruit of public probity cannot but be corrupt.

If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.

Let them call it mischief: When it is past and prospered t'will be virtue.

I shall produce nothing that will offend the proprieties, whether applied to children or grownups. My pictures are turned out with clean hands and, therefore, with a clear conscience which, like virtue, is its own reward.

Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.

Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.

If that form of government, that system of social order is not wrong - if those laws of the Southern States, by virtue of which slavery exists there, and is what it is, are not wrong - nothing is wrong.

It is often laziness and timidity that keep us within our duty while virtue gets all the credit.

All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.

Many people think that virtue consists of severity towards others.

Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue.

A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.

I want people to come away from my book with questions. Questions about virtue and goodness. Not answers.

Virtue, perhaps, is nothing more than politeness of soul.

Impeachment isn't a tool that should be used to virtue signal.

Virtue she finds too painful an endeavour, content to dwell in decencies for ever.

To say of shame - what is it? Of virtue - we can miss it; Of sin-we can kiss it, And it's no longer sin.

Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization.

Successful and fortunate crime is called virtue.

Virtue is the truest nobility.

According to the new ethics, virtue is not restrictive but expansive, a sentiment and even an intoxication.