Quotes About Ethics

A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.

I don't want to be remembered as a good goalkeeper. I want to be remembered as a great person.

The idea of winning a doctor's degree gradually assumed the aspect of a great moral struggle, and the moral fight possessed immense attraction for me.

Being brilliant is no great feat if you respect nothing.

I'm interested to see what happens with Fox News and phone hacking. I really can't believe it just happens in Great Britain. Because really, who cares about just hacking phones over there?

The good lawyer is the great salesman.

The really great thing about my shoe store is that there's not one dead animal in it.

Great leaders inspire, they don't manipulate.

Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.

The great escape of our times is escape from personal responsibility for the consequences of one's own behavior.

Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them.

We do not look in great cities for our best morality.

The Internet is both great and terrible. As a source of information, a tool for delivering music and art, it's great. But spamming ads and piracy of music is terrible. It's stealing.

Bad decisions made with good intentions, are still bad decisions.

Good writers borrow from other writers. Great writers steal from them outright.

Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves or their own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by themselves or others.

We win if the world is convinced of two things, that you are a fine gentleman, and a great baseball player.

I've already done enough to have earned 'good driver,' so if I can be known as a great person and a good driver, that's better than only being a great driver.

The success of any great moral enterprise does not depend upon numbers.

We may have failed to teach our children right from wrong, but we've done a great job of teaching self-esteem!

Patriotism must be founded on great principals and supported by great virtue.

I've often thought that my scruples about stealing books were the only thing that stood in the way of my being a really great scholar.

If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty, I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking.

I did it for political, moral reasons, thinking that I was making this great sacrifice, but it was absolutely necessary; I was not going to contribute to the violence in the world anymore.