Quotes About Ethics

Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.

Great writers are the saints for the godless.

Sacrifice, which is the passion of great souls, has never been the law of societies.

A good friend will help you plant your tulips. A great friend will help you plant a gun on the unarmed intruder you just shot.

Small crimes always precedes great ones.

If there is one realm in which it is essential to be sublime, it is in wickedness. You spit on a petty thief, but you can't deny a kind of respect for the great criminal.

The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.

It makes a great deal of difference whether one wills not to sin or has not the knowledge to sin.

Great and good are seldom the same man.

Great power involves great responsibility

Of those to whom much is given, much is asked.

Great art is cathartic; it is always moral.

My dad always said to me that with fame comes great responsibility, which has always stuck with me, even though I think he stole that line from Spiderman.

It is a great thing to know your vices.

They're only truly great who are truly good.

Great literature is like moral leadership; everyone deplores the lack of it, but there is a tendency to prefer it from the safely dead.

However glorious an action in itself, it ought not to pass for great if it be not the effect of wisdom and intention.

I take great responsibility in any character that I play.

Football and gambling - two great American addictions working together. What could possibly go wrong?

Universal morality is to be found in little everyday penny-events just as much as in great ones.

Nixon was no more a saint than he was a great president.

'Tis virtue, and not birth that makes us noble: Great actions speak great minds, and such should govern.

The people of great value are the people who have a noble inner man

Ambition without principle never was long under the guidance of good sense.