Quotes About Ethics

The desire to please those we admire and respect often cripples conscience.

Even potential human life needs to be treated with great respect.

I did it for the money. But its not worth much if you cant face yourself in the mirror. Respect is the ultimate currency.

Men whose acts are at variance with their words command no respect, and what they say has but little weight.

I don't like to trash talk... I don't know how to do that, it's not me. In the martial arts world that I was brought up it was all about respect.

The path to solid, supportive, healthy relationships, self-respect, and a quality life starts with the usually painful decision to do the Right Thing.

Virtue, though clothed in a beggar's garb, commands respect.

Mechanized recreation already has seized nine-tenths of the woods and mountains; a decent respect for minorities should dedicate the other tenth to wilderness.

Integrity, respect, compassion, and fairness become obstacles to people who think winning is everything

We cannot respect something just because millions or billions believe in it! We can respect something only if it is complying with the high intelligence and ethics!

Our offices must always be headed by the kind of men who command respect. Not phonies, zeros or bastards.

I think the more we embrace the culture of life and respect life, the better that we do.

There has never been a time in my life when I felt that I could take a gun and shoot down a fellow-being. In this respect I am a Quaker.

Intellectually, the Republican idea deserves the tolerance and respect one gives to the dead.

I do not wish, it happens, to be associated with Massachusetts, either in holding slaves or in conquering Mexico. I am a little better than herself in these respects.

Intellect has nothing to do with equality except to respect it as a sublime convention.

If there's one value that is immutable, it's integrity or respect, for others and for yourself.

I demand my right to a private life, just as I respect that right for everybody else.

A real man isn't somebody who takes advantage of a young girl but who treats her with respect.

What we do with the information now is up to us, but certainly I have a lot of respect for the courage and integrity that was required for [Edard Snowden] to take that action.

Promises are not to be kept, if the keeping of them is to prove harmful to those to whom you have made them.

Being an MP feeds your vanity and starves your self- respect.

I shall ever despise the man who can be gratified by the passion which he never wished to inspire, nor solicited the avowal of.

Do unto others as you would have others do unto you