Quotes About Ethics

Two voices struggled inside me. One that wanted to be good and brave, and one that told the good one to keep her mouth shut.

There is good and evil in each of us, and you can easily be led to the dark side.

It's not enough to do good. You have to be seen doing good.

Our clothing, while modest and simple, should be of good quality . . . It should be chosen for durability rather than display.

We are a great nation because we are a good people.

What's devil to some is good to some others.

You don't have to be a good person to be a good writer--history shows it's better if you're not--but you have to understand your badness.

Providing for one's family as a good husband and father is a water-tight excuse for making money hand over fist.

A true woman of virtue is one who will socialize with every man on earth, and doesn't share her body with any of them.

I tend to think that good and evil exist and that the quantity in each of us is unchangeable. The moral character of people is set, fixed until death.

Being a good human being is very easy: Be a good son, a good husband, a good parent and a good citizen.

I believe that engaging in the political process is part of being a good person.

You need to say and do the right things and good things happen to good people.

The habits of feeling, action and judgment that comprise good character depend on personal self-discipline and powerful aspiration to become a good person, all of which must be drawn from within.

I don't tend to think in terms of a moral authority - be a good boy, do good things - more in terms of what feels right.

Everybody has an instinctive desire to do good things and avoid evil. But that desire is sterile as long as we have no experience of what it means to be good.

You can't be a good leader without good character.

It is not good enough to do what the law says. We need to be in the forefront of these [social responsibility] issues.

Do well by doing good.

Sometimes it's more important to be human, than to have good taste.

Good and bad, I define these terms, quite clear, no doubt, somehow.

We are not more ingenious in searching out bad motives for good actions when performed by others, than good motives for bad actions when performed by ourselves.

A good thing can't be cruel.

At least you used to know 'there's the villain, there's the good guy', but today there are more shades of grey.