Quotes About Ethics

Forbidden fruit a flavor has That lawful orchards mocks ; How luscious lies the pea within The pod that Duty locks !

Life's not black-and-white. Sometimes the ends justifies the means.

The world is not that black and white, Rachel. There are no moral absolutes. It is complex.

You know in your heart when you're doing the right thing and when you're not. And you just have to do everything you can to stay the course.

She knows in her heart that it doesn't work like this. That misfortune doesn't give you the right to disregard others, ignore the rules, tell lies and half-truths.

that hard work, honesty, and integrity always paid off in the end, while skating by on your looks was somehow an offense. And like that day playing psychiatrist, I occasionally worried that she was right.

What I can't stand are the judgmental hypocrites—people who talk a big Christian game yet don't even make a cursory attempt to follow the Golden Rule, let alone some of those pesky commandments

A good heart will help you to a bonny face, my lad and a bad one will turn the bonniest into something worse than ugly.

Lives are beyond price, and to treat them as if they have some kind of barter value is obscene.

Good nurses follow rules," Lib growled, "but the best know when to break them.

Now I feel bad I didn't give her the second quarter. Grandma says that's called having a conscience.

Swiping's bad but if I was a swiper I'd swipe good stuff like cars and chocolates.

Bad people very often do one good thing.

It is essential that we realize once and for all that man is much more of a sex creature than a moral creature. The former is inherent, the other is grafted on.

The political arena leaves one no alternative, one must either be a dunce or a rogue.

All unnatural unions which are not hallowed by love are prostitution.

Politics is the reflex of the business and industrial world, the mottos of which are: "To take is more blessed than to give"; "buy cheap and sell dear"; "one soiled hand washes the other.

Thus Blackstone is right when he says, Human laws are invalid, because they are contrary to the laws of nature.

Cardinal Manning: Necessity knows no law, and the starving man has a natural right to a share of his neighbor's bread.

Treat people as an end, and never as a means to an end

It cannot be your duty to do anything that is beyond your reach or your strength at the moment. It cannot be your duty to do anything that sacrifices your own integrity or your own spiritual development.

Never take the easy way out if it means being dishonest or untruthful

Friendship isn't a science mudboy. Just do what you think is right.

This is the only way. I will not allow humans or fairies to die when I might have prevented it." Butler would not give up. "Listen to yourself. You sound like a... like a good guy! There's nothing in this for you.