Quotes About Ethics

Character is you doing what is right when no one is looking and no one will know.

Mark thomas: 'I am morally opposed to these weapons!' Columbian trade union activist: 'So I am but I find it very practical on occasion!

One mustn't criticize other people on grounds where he can't stand perpendicular himself

It is curious - curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare

Moralists and philosophers have adjudged those who throw temptation in the way of the erring, equally guilty with those who are thereby led into evil

It's good sportsmanship not to pick up lost balls while they are still rolling.

It's good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling

It is good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling

Conscience, man's moral medicine chest

Temperate temperance is best; intemperate temperance injures the cause of temperance.

The lie, as a virtue, a principle, is eternal; the lie, as a recreation, a solace, a refuge in time of need, the fourth Grace, the tenth Muse, man's best and surest friend is immortal.

The rain is famous for falling on the just and unjust alike, but if I had the management of such affairs I would rain softly and sweetly on the just, but if I caught a sample of the unjust out doors I would drown him.

Be good and you will be lonely.

I haven't a particle of confidence in a man who has no redeeming vices

In statesmanship get the formalities right, never mind about the moralities.

I am different from Washington; I have a higher, grander standard of principle. Washington could not lie. I can lie, but I won't.

We have the best government that money can buy.

The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven not man's.

I have a higher and grander standard of principle than George Washington. He could not lie; I can, but I won't.

Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, which course is patriotic and which isn't. You cannot shirk this and be a man. To decide against your conviction is to be an unqualified and excusable traitor, both to yourself and to your country, let men label you as they may.

He [George Washington Cable] has taught me to abhor and detest the Sabbath-day and hunt up new and troublesome ways to dishonor it.

But that's always the way; it don't make no difference whether you do right or wrong, a person's conscience ain't got no sense, and just goes for him anyway. If I had a yaller dog that didn't know no more than a person's conscience does I would pison him. It takes up more room than all the rest of a person's insides, and yet ain't no good, nohow.

The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right.

I am not interested to know whether vivisection produces results that are profitable to the human race or doesn't.... The pain which it inflicts upon unconsenting animals is the basis of my enmity toward it, and it is to me sufficient justification of the enmity without looking further.