Quotes About Ethics

Are there any good guys on 'Prison Break?' I suppose there might be. I can't honestly say whether I'm a good guy or a bad guy or I'm a good guy in wolf's clothing or sheep's clothing.

Despite their good intentions, today's businesses are missing an opportunity to integrate social responsibility and day-to-day business objectives - to do good and make money simultaneously.

It takes very little to govern good people. Very little. And bad people cant be governed at all. Or if they could I never heard of it.

I think most people come toward things assuming everybody is going to be a good person. When you have an interaction where it doesn't go that way, it's very problematic and interesting and weird.

I'm a good person. I don't wish hateful things on people. I don't hate anybody. I know that I treat people right.

I think I'll be going to Heaven, because I had good intentions. But my actions are another thing.

Ratings don't last. Good journalism does.

Two terrible behaviors don't make a good behavior.

Do you remember the good ol' days when Congress was only unsafe if you were an intern.

Most of us entered journalism and joined "news organizations" because we care about the greater good. We strive to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.

If you have a lair then you are probably not a good person.

We are fundamentally good, and evil is an aberration.

Though there are still many good people out there in the world, it seems that they're vastly outnumbered by the stupid, selfish, violent ones.

I fight fairly, and in good faith.

Good people were also capable of doing very bad things.

What else is wrong with 'suicide' bombing? Legally, less than what one might believe. While it may or may not be good strategy, it appears to be permissable under international law.

The essence of good and evil is a certain disposition of the will.

The Constitution gives you the right to a lawyer, but it doesn't allow you the right to a good reputation.

Good and evil grow up together and are bound in an equilibrium that cannot be sundered. The most we can do is try to tilt the equilibrium toward the good.

We all must try to be good.

I'm cut from a different cloth. I would never moon someone. I was raised in a good family.

It requires greater virtues to support good fortune than bad.

A fool has not material enough to be good. [Fr., Un sot n'a pas assez d'etoffe pour etre bon.]

The thing that pleases is not always good and, helas, the good thing does not always please.