Quotes about Ethics

Because he had hardened his soul and silenced his conscience with the excuse of progress

The man of good heart maintained that a moral crisis is produced when the same affluent Catholics (religious people) who faithfully go to mass (church) deny their workers a dignified wage. These words should be engraved on the thousand-peso note, so we never forget them.

Combine common sense and the Golden Rule, and you will have very little bad luck.

Knowledge cannot defile, nor consequently the books, if the will and conscience be not defiled.

To enjoy the things we ought, and to hate the things we ought, has the greatest bearing on excellence of character.

If you think about what you ought to do for other people, your character will take care of itself.

If I take care of my character, my reputation will take care of itself.

Conscience is a cur that will let you get past it but that you cannot keep from barking.

Shame arises from the fear of man; conscience from the fear of God.

When one bases his life on principle, 99 percent of his decisions are already made.

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.