Quotes About Ethics

What we believe determines how we live. Men who sincerely believed that what they were doing was right have perpetrated many of the most hideous crimes against humanity.

In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.

Duty were our games.

If you step on people in this life, you're going to come back as a cockroach.

If cows wouldn't eat it, I won't play on it.

I don't remember Moses writing, 'Thou shalt not kill.. unless you think you have a good reason.

If you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.

Always be nice to people on the way up because you'll meet the same people on the way down.

There is a little good in all evil.

General Crook had said when a reporter asked him what was the hardest thing about fighting Indians. Replied Three Stars, "Knowing you're wrong." Lieutenant

Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.

Never does a man portray his character more vividly than his proclaiming the character to another.

When I am abroad, I always make it a rule to never criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home

The qualities of mongrels are rarely admirable, and the mixture of the Arab and negro types has produced a debased and cruel breed, more shocking because they are more intelligent than the primitive savages.

We do not covet anything from any nation except their respect.

Tedn't law. Tedn't right. Tedn't just. Tedn't sense. Tedn't friendly.

The book from which you take your teaching, Dr. Halse, says that man shall not live by bread alone. These days you're asking men to live without even bread.

everything else is stripped away," the Colonel said, "that's all you will have left, your honor, the most important thing in a man's life.

The buzzard has nothing to fault himself with. Scruples are alien to the black panther. Piranhas do not doubt the rightness of their actions. The rattlesnake approves of himself without reservations. The self-critical jackal does not exist. The locust, alligator, trichina, horsefly live as they live and are glad of it. The killer whale's heart weighs one hundred kilos but in other respects it is light. There is nothing more animal-like than a clear conscience on the third planet of the Sun.

He lived a life on the highest plane, a life much higher than ethics or morality. The life He lived was actually God Himself.

Jeremiah 13:23 says, "Can the Cushite change his skin, / Or the leopard his spots? / Then you also may be able to do good, / Who are accustomed to do evil.

Although you may argue that it is not wrong to steal from others, the nature within you protests whenever you are tempted to steal. Even bank robbers will admit that, as they rob banks, their nature tells them, "Don't do this." However, they will not listen. It is the same with every evil-doer. Whenever they do something wrong, their nature disagrees. We need to observe the requirements of the nature within us.

Our conscience protests [39] continually. When you argue with your parents, the conscience says, "Don't do this." If you offend your parents, your conscience will trouble you for three nights. Every husband seeking to divorce his wife will also be convicted by his conscience. All men have a conscience. This is a great matter. In the normal Christian life we must all take care of our conscience in a suitable way.

The hand that dips into the bottom of the pot will eat the biggest snail.