Quotes About Ethics

Good words are better than bad strokes.

Actors do these really gross, gun-'em-down movies, and I always wonder why. They're not good movies. And it's like, "Why are you doing them? Aren't you rich enough?"

A good leader must be fair.

Of course killing people is 'wrong', but I think history shows that sometimes it serves the greater good.

Active evil is better than passive good

Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well.

All good and evil, whether in the body or in human nature, originates in the soul, and overflows from thence, as if from the head into the eyes.

Well, evil to some is always good to others.

The true measure of all our actions is how long the good in them lasts.

It seemed the world was divided into good and bad people. The good ones slept better, [Cloquet thought, ] while the bad ones seemed to enjoy the waking hours much more.

Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. It is not fair. He has fame and profit enough as a poet, and should not be taking the bread out of the mouths of other people.

If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.

When men do not have healthy notions of the Divinity, false ideas supplant them, just as in bad times one uses counterfeit money when there is no good money.

If we live good lives, the times are also good. As we are, such are the times.

.......Is there any reward for good, other than good.

Good and Bad are like God and Devil. It's up to you, who do you want to summon.

Only God is good.""We can make good works, We can be called good folksWe can do good, but we cannot be good.

Good words alone does not make a person good, but good deeds makes a person great.

Our greatest heritage is intangible.

I am determined that never, if I can help it, Shall evil triumph over good." - Creon

Those who claim to be on the side of good yet do nothing to fight evil are on the side of evil.

Others are not born bad or good... and neither are people, by the way.

The best form of government is that which is most likely to prevent the greatest sum of evil.

It is my principle never to accept any donations from any government or any foreign funded organisation.