Quotes About Ethics

To those who are given much, much is expected.

We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced them.

I'd rather be right than President.

One can measure the greatness and the moral progress of a nation by looking at how it treats its animals.

If you would not be known to do anything, never do it.

You cannot do wrong without suffering wrong.

You accuse me of black marketing, but which of you has not slept with me?

It seems to me that I cannot afford, as a self-respecting individual, to refuse to do a thing merely because it will make me disliked or bring down a storm of criticism on my head.

Nothing of character is really permanent but virtue and personal worth.

It is better to be a little too strict than too liberal.

Good deeds are seldom remembered; bad deeds are seldom forgotten.

The New England conscience doesn't keep you from doing what you shouldn't - it just keeps you from enjoying it.

I have raised the morals and sobriety of the people.

The price of dishonesty is self-destruction.

I was good and bad, but never wicked.

George, she says it's the truth that matters. We live and die for the chance to maybe tell a little bit of the truth, maybe shame the Devil just a little bit before we go.

The distinction between pretending you are better than you are and beginning to be better in reality is finer than moral sleuth hounds conceive.

Prosperity is the opposite of greedy.

By honoring your words you are honored in this world.

If the laborer gets no more than the wages which his employer pays him, he is cheated, he cheats himself.

People need religion. It's a vehicle for a moral tradition. A crucial role. Nothing can take its place.

Culture drives great results.

We've only been wealthy in this country for 70 years. Who said we ought to have all this? Is it ordained?

Funding a civilization through advertising is like trying to get nutrition by connecting a tube from one's anus to one's mouth.