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Quotes About Ethics

There's good and evil going on. We have cops. We have robbers.
~ Joe Mantegna
It is not enough to be nice; you have to be good. We are attracted by nice people; but only on the assumption that their niceness is a sign of goodness.
~ Roger Scruton
The word 'good' has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
Evil communication corrupts good manners. I hope to live to hear that good communication corrects bad manners.
~ Benjamin Banneker
There is an old illusion. It is called good and evil.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
I think good things come to good people.
~ Derrick Rose
Are you planning to follow a career in Magical Law, Miss Granger?" asked Scrimgeour. "No, I'm not," retorted Hermione. "I'm hoping to do some good in the world!
~ J. K. Rowling
He who is too busy doing good finds no time to be good.
~ Rabindranath Tagore
If your religion doesn't teach you the difference between good and evil, your religion is worse than useless.
~ Dennis Prager
Good manners is part of taqwa and you cannot have taqwa without good manners
~ Ibn Rajab
A man must be willing to die for justice. Death is an inescapable reality and men die daily, but good deeds live forever.
~ Jesse Jackson
I'd rather be a good person off the field than a good baseball player on the field.
~ Bryce Harper
I want to show people how there are variations and different interpretations of good and evil.
~ Hideo Kojima
The battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man.
~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
This sign I give you: every people speaks its tongue of good and evil, which the neighbor does not understand. It has invented its own language of customs and rights.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Good design is honest.
~ Dieter Rams
If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil.
~ Baruch Spinoza
Good morals lead to good laws.
~ Chuck Norris
Feeling good about yourself is not the same thing as doing good. Good policy is more important than good feelings.
~ Theodore Dalrymple
Design means being good, not just looking good.
~ Clement Mok
I'm more interested in being good than being famous.
~ Annie Leibovitz
You got good and bad people everywhere.
~ Suge Knight
It's better to be a good person than a famous person.
~ Jenny Holzer
The lesser of two evils, or the least of the worst, is not good enough for the American people anymore.
~ Ralph Nader