Quotes About Ethics

The only thing you can never change is your values.

Ambition is not a vice of little people.

Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.

If you commit a crime, you're guilty.

What you do off the job is determining factor in how far you will go on the job.

Though wrong gratifies in the moment, good yields its gifts over a lifetime.

What I stand for is what I stand on.

Good values are easier caught than taught.

Happiness is the highest good

Each day we are becoming a creature of splendid glory or one of unthinkable horror.

It is better to kill one hundred innocents than to let one guilty person go.

Why should anyone steal a watch when he could steal a bicycle?

It is not enough to have great qualities; We should also have the management of them.

Everyone will experience the consequences of his own acts. If his acts are right, he'll get good consequences; if they're not, he'll suffer for it.

Truth is always in harmony with herself, and is not concerned chiefly to reveal the justice that may consist with wrong-doing.

Doing the right thing daily, compounds over time.

Chaperons don't enforce morality; they force immorality to be discreet.

Envy is blind, and she has no other quality than that of detracting from virtue

It is difficult, but not impossible, to conduct strictly honest business.

What I say is that 'just' or 'right' means nothing but what is in the interest of the stronger party.

The right things to do are those that keep our violence in abeyance; the wrong things are those that bring it to the fore.

Look to be treated by others as you have treated others.

Certainly one of the highest duties of the citizen is a scrupulous obedience to the laws of the nation. But it is not the highest duty.

If it is committed in the name of God or country, there is no crime so heinous that the public will not forgive it.