Quotes About Ethics

If thou wilt lend this money, lend it not As to thy friends; for when did friendship take A breed for barren metal of his friend?

He who looks for advantage out of friendship strips it all of its nobility.

Notice that all the traditional things philosophers do, looking for validity and soundness, promote civic friendship. That sounds pretty pie in the sky, yes, but I actually believe it.

Who friendship with a knave hath made, Is judged a partner in the trade.

It is virtue itself that produces and sustains friendship, not without virtue can friendship by any possibility exist.

The religion of my doctor or my lawyer cannot matter. That consideration has nothing in common with the functions of the friendship they owe me.

Justice discards party, friendship, kindred, and is always, therefore, represented as blind.

The cabinets of the sick and the closets of the dead have been ransacked to publish private letters and divulge to all mankind the most secret sentiments of friendship.

There is nothing meritorious but virtue and friendship.

We should behave to our friends as we would wish our friends to behave to us.

Character builds slowly but it can be torn down with incredible swiftness.

Better fare hard with good men than feast with bad.

By associating with good and evil persons a man acquires the virtues and vices which they possess even as the wind blowing over different places takes along good and bad odors.

I would prefer as a friend a good man who is ignorant than one more clever who is evil too.

A wise man associating with the vicious becomes an idiot a dog traveling with good men becomes a rational being.

To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism; to steal from many is research.

All the things I really like to do are either immoral, illegal or fattening.

Why does the Air Force need expensive new bombers? Have the people we've been bombing over the years been complaining?

Although a skillful flatterer is a most delightful companion if you have him all to yourself, his taste becomes very doubtful when he takes to complimenting other people.

Maybe this is crazy, but I think the right to own a gun is trumped by the right not to be shot by one.

Congress is furious at the Secret Service for consorting with hookers, which has traditionally been Congress's role.

We have the Bill of Rights. What we need is a Bill of Responsibilities.

If you had to eat another human to survive, do you think they'd taste like their ethnic background?

Moral indignation in most cases is, 2% moral, 48% indignation, and 50% envy.