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Quotes About Ethics

I believe in doing good for good's sake.
~ John Henrik Clarke
I've done bad things with relish, and good things with pickles.
~ John S. Hall
I have never seen a good organization where the standards weren't high.
~ Colin Powell
The only motive that can keep politics pure is the motive of doing good for one's country and its people.
~ Henry Ford
The only way to prove that you're a good sport is to lose.
~ Ernie Banks
Good government is the outcome of private virtue.
~ John Jay Chapman
The greatest travelers have not gone beyond the limits of their own world; they have trodden the paths of their own souls, of good and evil, of morality and redemption.
~ Carlo Levi
He who fills His pockets with the Rocks of Misdeeds shall surely sink in the River of Good Fortune.
~ Jim Davis
Human beings place their desires ahead of the collective good.
~ Deepak Chopra
People don't change at their core. If you're a good person, you are a good person. What changes is our behavior.
~ Karrine Steffans
Sin corrupts even our good deeds. We injure our shoulder trying to pat ourselves on the back.
~ D. A. Carson
Good and bad are really arbitrary words when it comes to character.
~ Anson Mount
There will be no good business unless the majority comes to agree that we should demand more from business than large quarterly returns.
~ Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Globalizing a bad thing makes it worse. But globalizing a good thing is usually good.
~ Richard Stallman
All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.
~ Robert Louis Stevenson
All I ever seek from good deeds is a measure of respect.
~ Walter Annenberg
Some dreamers demand that scientists only discover things that can be used for good.
~ John Charles Polanyi
A good reputation is more valuable than money.
~ Publilius Syrus
A good lawyer is a bad Christian.
~ John Lothrop Motley
Someone reminded me I once said, 'Greed is good.' Now it seems it's legal.
~ Michael Douglas
I personally cannot in good faith continue to contribute to a process [IPCC process] that I view as both being motivated by pre-conceived agendas and being scientifically unsound.
~ Christopher Landsea
Don't be evil- apparently people like it better than "Be good".
~ Larry Page
Do you want to feel good, or do you want to do good?
~ Ted Nugent
I ask everyone with political responsibility to remember two things: human dignity and the common good.
~ Pope Francis