Quotes about Ethics

Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, which course is patriotic and which isn't. You cannot shirk this and be a man. To decide against your conviction is to be an unqualified and inexcusable traitor, both to yourself and to your country, let men label you as they may.

He is a drunkard who takes more than three glasses, though he be not drunk.

It is thy duty oftentimes to do what thou wouldst not; thy duty, too, to leave undone that thou wouldst do.

No personal consideration should stand in the way of performing a public duty.

No one in this world needs a mink coat but a mink.

There is no such thing as white lies; a lie is as black as a coalpit, and twice as foul.

The true worth of a man is to be measured by the objects he pursues.

The one thing worth living for is to keep one's soul pure.

What you do not want others to do to you, do not do to others.

Let no guilty man escape, if it can be avoided. No personal consideration should stand in the way of performing a public duty.

It's what you do that makes your soul, not the other way around.

Happy [is] the man who knows his duties!