Quotes about Ethics
we all did what we undertake to do, as faithfully as Herbert did, we might live in a Republic of the Virtues.
- Charles Dickens
Go put your creed into your deed...
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Take care that no one hates you justly.
- Publilius Syrus
Goodness is the only investment that never fails.
- Henry David Thoreau
No man is above the law and no man is below it; nor do we ask any man's permission when we require him to obey it... Obedience to the law is demanded as a right, not asked as a favor.
- Theodore Roosevelt
Our morality seems to me only a check on the ultimate domination of force, just as our politeness is a check on the impulse of every pig to put his feet in the trough.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.
- Oscar Wilde
Sooner or later...one has to take sides. If one is to remain human.
- Graham Greene
I have tried so hard to do right.
- Grover Cleveland
Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking
- H Jackson Brown, Jr.
Let people know what you stand for and what you won't stand for.
- H Jackson Brown, Jr.
Open your arms to change, but don't let go of your values.
- H Jackson Brown, Jr.