Quotes About Ethics

All human beings search for either reasons to be good, or excuses to be bad.

In all good westerns, the good guy is always a little bit questionable because he kind-of has to make moral judgments.

Good deeds never go unpunished.

I am much more afraid of my good deeds that please me than of my bad deeds that repel me.

Not even death can wipe out our good deeds

If we don't have souls then who am I talking to when I keep telling myself to be good?

But what is Freedom? Rightly understood, A universal licence to be good.

We cannot freely and wisely choose the right way for ourselves unless we know both good and evil.

Usually people who do bad things make good writers.I did a lot of bad things, which is why my novels are interesting.

I will probably go to jail, but do you know what? There's a lot of good people who go to jail.

When you think about it, most of the good ideas came along to make sin a whole lot easier.

A good person, striving dimly, Is well aware of the right path.

If you are poor, distinguish yourself by your virtues; if rich, by your good deeds.

To speak ill of a good person is not truly good, all in all.

America's corporations learned long ago that equality is just good business and is the right thing to do.

Everyone values the good nature of a man with a gun.

For me the most important thing is being a really good person, and that doesn't depend on what you do on stage, that depends on how you treat people when you're offstage.

One of the keys to our present definition of good taste is that it is better to be kind than to be 'correct.' There is no situation in which it is smart to be nasty.

Aesthetics, ethics, and many good things in humans are contagious.

The habit of attending to small things and of appreciating small courtesies is one of the important marks of a good person.

There is good and bad in everyone.

It is much more intelligent, more practical, to be good rather than evil.

It is perfectly easy to be original by violating the laws of decency and the canons of good taste.

Good people can't out-think evil, cause evil thinks of things good folks can't think of.