Quotes About Ethics

When literature becomes deliberately indifferent to the opposition of good and evil it betrays its function and forfeits all claim to excellence.

There is a certain kind of morality which is even more alien to good and evil than amorality is.

Good people can do bad things, make bad decisions. It doesn't make them bad people.

With my Roman Catholic upbringing, I have a set of principles that serve me well in good times and bad.

It's no sin to tell a good story.

Loyalty isn't standing by someone when he's right - that's good judgment. Loyalty is standing by someone when he's wrong.

Yet the age was not so utterly destitute of virtues but that it produced some good examples. [Lat., Non tamen adeo virtutum sterile seculum, ut non et bona exempla prodiderit.]

You might believe a good man easily, a great man with pleasure. -Bonum virum facile crederes, magnum libenter

Good and evil exists everywhere.

You know flexibility is a good thing but it shouldn't - you shouldn't be flexible on core principles.

Knowing how bad you could be is a great encouragement to being good.

Good and bad is tricky," she said. "I ain't too certain about where people stand. P'raps what matters is which way you face." (pp. 348-349)

One should never send soldiers on a mission based on just good will and good intent. Unfortunately, that can mean one has to stand by and watch human rights abuses take place.

The man who is all morality and intellect, although he may be good and even great, is, after all, only half a man.

Better fare hard with good men than feast it with bad.

Certainly some things that are very good can sometimes be used in a bad way.

Being good to people is the only insurance policy you need.

Anyone who maintains absolute standards of good and evil is dangerous. As dangerous as a maniac with a loaded revolver.

You know that saying, bad things don't happen to good people? That's a lie.

Be good or don't get caught.

One or two of these scoundrel statesmen should be shot once a-year, just to keep the others on their good behavior.

My dear, be a good man be virtuous be religious be a good man. Nothing else will give you any comfort when you come to lie here. ...God bless you all.

It takes a lifetime to build a good reputation, but you can lose it in a minute.

The thing that interests me is the good and evil in everybody. I don't have conventional heroes in the films that I directed, because I believe there's good and evil in everybody.