Quotes About Ethics

Some lady at a bridge party somewhere started the rumor that to test the honesty of a cleaning woman you leave little rosebud ashtrays around with loose change in them, here and there. My solution to this is to always add a few pennies, even a dime.

As a rule, never work for friends. Sooner or later they resent you because you know so much about them. Or else you'll no longer like them, because you do.)

I was still more concerned (a preference which you may be far from resenting) to strike a blow for Epicurus, that great man whose holiness and divinity of nature were not shams, who alone had and imparted true insight into the good, and who brought deliverance to all that consorted with him.

The great opportunity offered by ICTs comes with a huge intellectual responsibility to understand them and take advantage of them in the right way.

Here's what I advise any young struggling actress today: The important thing is to develop as a woman first, and a performer second. You wouldn't prostitute yourself to get a part, not if you're in the right mind. You won't be happy, whatever you do, unless you're comfortable with your own conscience.

A man whose life has been dishonourable is not entitled to escape disgrace in death.

The first and greatest punishment of the sinner is the conscience of sin.

Laws do not persuade just because they threaten.

Successful and fortunate crime is called virtue.

We are mad, not only individually, but nationally. We check manslaughter and isolated murders; but what of war and the much vaunted crime of slaughtering whole peoples?

It makes a great deal of difference whether one wills not to sin or has not the knowledge to sin.

Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

No one can be happy who has been thrust outside the pale of truth. And there are two ways that one can be removed from this realm: by lying, or by being lied to.

So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.

A kingdom founded on injustice never lasts.

An action will not be right unless the will be right for from thence is the action derived. Again, the will will not be right unless the disposition of the mind be right for from thence comes the will.

Tis the upright mind that holds true sovereignty.

If our principles are right, why should we be cowards?

Therefore death is nothing to us, it matters not one jot, since the nature of the mind is understood to be mortal.

Such evil deeds could religion prompt.

So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.

Such are the heights of wickedness to which men are driven by religion.

Though the dungeon, the scourge, and the executioner be absent, the guilty mind can apply the goad and scorch with blows.