Quotes about Ethics

When we raise our game aesthetically, we elevate it morally and spiritually as well.

A king does not expend his substance to enslave men, but by his conduct and example makes them free.

The only items you get to keep are love for the work, will to finish, and passion to serve the ethical, creative Muse.

Arabs lie. Let me tell you this, Gent, if you don't know it already. We lie for fun, we lie for profit, we lie all the time, and we don't even know why.

A Jew asks over and over, "What is fair? What is just? Who is a good man, and why?

Being a good man has nothing to do with how many touchdowns you score. But maybe, rather, how you play the game.

God's laws tell us right from wrong and how we are to treat others. As the founding fathers established a new democracy in America, they did so on the premise that humanity was fallen and thus there was a need for a rule of law to curb our natural tendencies to follow our own wants and lusts even to the detriment of others.

Character is doing what you don't want to do but know you should do.

Character is doing what you don't want to do but know you should do.

High malice is almost inherent in the profession of historian.

That which is inhuman cannot be divine.

In avoiding the appearance of evil, I am not sure but I have sometimes unnecessarily deprived myself and others of innocent enjoyments.