Quotes About Ethics

Without a sense of proportion there can be neither good taste nor genuine intelligence, nor perhaps moral integrity.

Our best performances are so stained with sin, that it is hard to know whether they are good works or bad works.

It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good.

Intelligence agencies keep things secret because they often violate the rule of law or of good behavior.

Bad people doing bad things is not interesting. What I find interesting is good people doing bad things.

He that is good will infallibly become better, and he that is bad will as certainly become worse; for vice, virtue, and time are three things that never stand still.

Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell.

A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad.

Good company is important, it helps to cultivate good qualities.

If you desire to be good, begin by believing that you are wicked.

Be good and you'll be lonesome

Good moral actions are not enough. Everything in us, from the very depths, must be cleansed and reordered.

A good character is the best tombstone.

I believe in a higher power and I believe in good and bad, right and wrong. You sleep in the bed you make.

I want to be a good human being.

Liberty is an opportunity for doing good, but this is only so when it is also an opportunity for doing wrong.

Good and evil increase at compound interest. That's why the little decisions we make every day are of infinite importance.

Good question to ask yourself: How would the person I would like to be do what I'm about to do?

I believe you can make forces of good and evil work for you, to get what you want.

Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.

The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.

The soul that has conceived one wickedness can nurse no good thereafter.

If you're a good person, the goodness will continue through your descendants.

I do have traditional values: I believe in being a good person and being polite.