Quotes About Ethics

What is called for is dignity. We need to set an example.

I have not seen a person who loved virtue, or one who hated what was not virtuous. He who loved virtue would esteem nothing above it.

We lose dignity if we tolerate the intolerable.

We are defined by our dignity to rise above debasement. We are certainly better people for doing so.

How you behave toward cats here below determines your status in Heaven.

The truest test of civilization, culture and dignity is character and not clothing.

Small habits well pursued betimes May reach the dignity of crimes.

There is even the dignity of vice.

I think the dignity of Congress and the dignity of the country demands something more than merely censure here.

Things have a price and can be for sale. But people have a dignity that is priceless and worth far more than things.

I give dignity second place to expedience.

Personal dignity is to be measured with the yardstick of one's conscience, not with that of other people's judgement.

Propriety was a rigid master, but one that must be obeyed if one wanted to keep a sterling reputation.

Dignity is a matter which concerns only mankind.

What is dignity without honesty?

It is of very little use in trying to be dignified, if dignity is no part of your character.

It is the stain and disgrace of the age to envy virtue, and to be anxious to crush the very flower of dignity.

There is dignity in your being even if there's indignity in what you're doing.

Virtue may be cheerful without forgetting its dignity.

I really think the most important thing I do is to protect the dignity and the integrity of the Office of the Surgeon General.

It is more offensive to outshine in dignity than in personal attractions.

You can take somebody's job, you have to take their job, but you don't have to take their dignity.

This is a generation that is really detached from the core, human values that lead to dignity.

I don't need to be a radical to think that who a dragon is counts more than birth or wealth," Selendra said, with what dignity she could."Why, that's the very definition of a radical," he retorted.