Quotes about Ethics

Don't do anything that you think is wrong. Just do what you think is right, and then be ready to back it up even with your life.

See you don't have to think about doing the right thing. If you're for the right thing you do it without thinking.

Teachers of my early youth Taught forgiveness stressed the truth Here then is my Christian lack: If I'm struck then I'll strike back.

Mother whispered, 'See, you don't have to think about doing the right thing, If you're for the right thing, then you do it without thinking.

Mother whispered, "See, you don't have to think about doing the right thing. If you're for the right thing, then you do it without thinking.

If I'm living a little better now, it's because I treats everybody right.

Without waiting for Momma's thanks, he rode out of the yard, sure that things were as they should be and that he was a gentle squire, saving those deserving serfs from the laws of the land, which he condoned.

If we absolutely can't feel good about something we're doing, then we shouldn't do it - no matter how charitable it seems. We also shouldn't do things for others that they ought to and are capable or doing for themselves. Other people aren't helpless. Neither are we.

Love cannot exist without the dimension of justice.

Doing the right thing when it is not popular or when it is not going to get everyone's approval is not always easy, but I am convinced that if we truly care about other people, we will go ahead and take the risk anyway.

Our problems are not ours alone — we share them with future generations — and we have a moral obligation to hand our nation over to our children and grandchildren in good shape.

Civility and political correctness, contrary to the thinking of many, are not the same. Civility constrains behavior and words based on genuine caring about others, while political correctness is only a facade of caring while hoping to cultivate public approval.