Quotes About Ethics

There's one way to find out if a man is honest: ask him; if he says yes, you know he's crooked.

Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.

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 me label you as they may.

lying to them is bad! I am a real person!

Never tell the truth to those unworthy of it....

Now what I contend is that my body is my own, at least I have always so regarded it. If I do harm through my experimenting with it, it is I who suffers, not the state.

The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to other creatures but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot.

There is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress.

Those that respect the law and love sausage should watch neither being made.

To be good is noble, but to teach others how to be good is nobler--and less trouble.

Virtue has never been as respectable as money.

We all have thoughts that would shame the devil.

Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.

Respect for the truth is an acquired taste.

Even when you make a tax form out on the level, you don't know when it's through if you are a crook or a martyr.

People are getting smarter nowadays; they are letting lawyers, instead of their conscience, be their guide.

Guilt, remorse. It's what separates us from the animals.

If at first you don't succeed, lie, lie again.

Currently we don't have plans on conquering the world.

Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.

If I were in this business only for the business, I wouldn't be in this business.

Mr.Blank's reputation as a card shark had preceded him. No one accused him of being dishonest, but on the other hand no one accused him of being honest.

Lawyers spend their professional careers shoveling smoke.

Ethical dilemmas have a way of sneaking up on a person. If something smells funny, stay away from it. Or help get rid of it.