Quotes about Ethics

Hypocrisy is the scarlet letter in politics.

I want to improve as a football player, but even more importantly, I really want to improve as a person.

You cannot do wrong and feel right. It is impossible!

Character is the container for blessing.

Evil often thrives in the absence of an authentic righteous standard.

Perpetrators absolve their harmful behavior as serving worthy causes.

Each of us has a vision of good and of evil. We have to encourage people to move towards what they think is good... Everyone has his own idea of good and evil and must choose to follow the good and fight evil as he conceives them. That would be enough to make the world a better place.

He who would be no slave must consent to have no slave. Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves and, under a just God, cannot long retain it.

Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.

He that wounds himself, even though he has not the right, is not culpable; but if others have wounded him, they are culpable.

The wretched have no compassion, they can do good only from strong principles of duty.

I believe that a long step toward public morality will have been taken when sins are called by their right names.