Quotes about Ethics

Cruelty is the only sin.

Dignity does not consist in possessing honours, but in deserving them.

Our concern is not how to worship in the catacombs but how to remain human in the skyscrapers.

Remember this: If you work for a man, in Heaven's name, work for him. If he pays you wages which supply you bread and butter, work for him; speak well of him; stand by the institution he represents. If put to a pinch, an ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness. If you must vilify, condemn and eternally disparage - resign your position, and when you are on the outside, damn to your heart's content, but as long as you are part of the institution do not condemn it.

Saint abroad, and a devil at home.

In politics, not all lies are all lies. And not all truths are complete.

We're all complicit in the things we may be trying to oppose. I'm complicit in the things that I'm trying to oppose.

This high-end, novelistic form of TV, you know, is just peppered with despicable people who do marvelous things and marvelous people who do despicable things.

Worry less about solutions from the top or the idea that there is a solution, but try to do whatever you can and instill in each action the values that you want to result.

People today are desperate for leaders, but they want to be influenced only by individuals they can trust, persons of good character.

It is my conviction that the root of evil is the want of a living God.

The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.