Quotes about Ethics
When one's character begins to fall under suspicion and disfavor, how swift, then, is the work of disintegration and destruction.
- Mark Twain
The greatest work in all the world is the building of men and women of character. Without character there is not much that is worthwhile.
- Ezra Taft Benson
The fruit does not make the tree good or bad but the tree itself is what determines the nature of the fruit. In the same way, a person first must be good or bad before doing a good or bad work.
- Martin Luther
What men of science want is only a fair day's wages for more than a fair day's work.
- Thomas Henry Huxley
I have never obtained any ethical values from my scientific work.
- Albert Einstein
Our policies must be premised on, and must reinforce, values such as family, hard work, integrity and personal responsibility.
- Dan Quayle
I have spoken to people in intelligence. And they are big believers in, as an example, waterboarding. Because they say it does work. It does work.
- Donald Trump
Putting your name on something and having no idea how it came about if someone else did all the work - that's not me.
- Drew Barrymore
If you work for a man, in Heavens name work for him! If he pays you wages that supply your bread and butter, work for him, stand by him, and stand by the institution he represents.
- Elbert Hubbard
I shall argue that strong men, conversely, know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve a greater principle.
- Andrew Carnegie
Those who do not think religious organizations should have an opinion on climate change misunderstand the former and the moral dimension of the latter.
- Blase J. Cupich
I have to live for others and not for myself: that's middle-class morality.
- George Bernard Shaw