Quotes about Ethics

I do not wish any reward but to know I have done the right thing.

To do good is noble. To tell others to do good is even nobler and much less trouble.

It is never wrong to do the right thing.

Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.

Steal a chicken if you get a chance, Huck, because if you don't want it, someone else does and a good deed ain't never forgotten.

A sound heart is a surer guide than an ill-trained conscience.

I do not like an injurious lie, except when it injures somebody else.

After a long time and many questions, Satan said, The spider kills the fly, and eats it; the bird kills the spider and eats it; the wildcat kills the goose; the -- well, they all kill each other. It is murder all along the line. Here are countless multitudes of creatures, and they all kill, kill, kill, they are all murderers. And they are not to blame, Divine One?

The preacher who casts a vote for conscience' sake, runs the risk of starving.

Man is the only animal that loves his neighbor as himself and cuts his throat if his theology isn't straight

It is said, in this country, that if a man can arrange his religion so that it perfectly satisfies his conscience, it is not incumbent upon him to care whether the arrangement is satisfactory to anyone else or not.

He has one code of morals for himself, and quite another for his children. He requires his children to deal justly—and gently—with offenders, and forgive them seventy-and-seven times; whereas he deals neither justly nor gently with anyone, and he did not forgive the ignorant and thoughtless first pair of juveniles even their first small offense and say, "You may go free this time, I will give you another chance.