Quotes About Ethics

Honor is the moral conscience of the great.

The law: it has honored us; may we honor it.

Honor is a harder master than the law.

Here honor binds me, and I wish to satisfy it.

Why should honor outlive honestly? Orthello

We have lost morals, justice, honor, piety and faith, and that sense of shame which, once lost, can never be restored.

To me the highest thing, after God, is my honor.

Worth, courage, honor, these indeed Your sustenance and birthright are.

To die with honor when one can no longer live with honor.

Honor is decency without vanity.

Not honesty alone, but the punctilio of an honor the most sensitive, is then the standard of behavior.

As virtue is necessary in a republic, and honor in a monarchy, fear is what is required in a despotism. As for virtue, it is not at all necessary, and honor would be dangerous there.

Honor is an old-world thing; but it smells sweet to those in whose hand it is strong.

Neither I nor anyone else knows what a standard is. We all recognize a dishonorable act, but have no idea what honor is.

"On my honor" - what an ennobling phrase! Three short words, nine letters, but the summation of all we call character. From the Boy Scout's Oath.

Your value is nothing if you cannot honor your word. If you do not mean what you say, you are the most mean person on the Earth.

Rose, I cheat at cards and buy liquor for minors. But I would never, ever force you into something you don't want.

Even in your smallest gestures, you express your sense of honor, if you have one.

The country's honor must be upheld at home and abroad.

When our honor becomes greater than our moods, that is where transformation happens

I'm thirty," I said. "I'm five years too old to lie to myself and call it honor

Maybe I'm old-school, but I always thought you honor a contract.

An ill deed cannot bring honor.

Honor is but an empty bubble.