Quotes about Ethics
In statesmanship get formalities right, never mind about the moralities.
— Mark Twain
A man does not have to be an angel in order to be a saint.
— Albert Schweitzer
It is no easy thing for a principle to become a man's own unless each day he maintains it and works it out in his life.
— Epictetus
It is rare that the public sentiment decides immorally or unwisely, and the individual who differs from it ought to distrust and examine well his own opinion.
— Thomas Jefferson
A book or poem which has no pity in it had better not be written.
— Oscar Wilde
When Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero 106-43 BC,) was in 64 BC running for consul of Rome he was reported to be advised by his "campaign manager" that the voters "had rather you lied to them than refused them."
— Anonymous
Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
— George Eliot
Religion without humanity is a poor human stuff.
— Sojourner Truth
The public have neither shame nor gratitude.
— William Hazlitt
It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.
— Thomas Jefferson
Heaven itself has ordained the right.
— George Washington
It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.
— Eleanor Roosevelt