Quotes about Ethics

If we should deal out justice only, in this world, who would escape? No, it is better to be generous, and in the end more profitable, for it gains gratitude for us, and love.

It's considered good sportsmanship not to pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling.

A wise man does not waste so good a commodity as lying for naught.

If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat.

Do right for your own sake, and be happy in knowing that your neighbor will certainly share in the benefits resulting.

The Moral Sense teaches us what is right, and how to avoid it--when unpopular.

Virtue never has been as respectable as money.

The man who speaks an injurious truth lest his soul be not saved if he do otherwise, should reflect that that sort of a soul is not strictly worth saving. The

I] shall never use profanity except in discussing house rent and taxes. Indeed, upon second thought, I will not use it then, for it is unchristian, inelegant, and degrading--though to speak truly I do not see how house rent and taxes are going to be discussed worth a cent without it.

Why shouldn't we be honest and honorable, and lie every time we get a chance? That is to say, why shouldn't we be consistent, and either lie all the time or not at all?

Mornings before daylight I slipped into cornfields and borrowed a watermelon, or a mushmelon, or a punkin, or some new corn, or things of that kind. Pap always said it warn't no harm to borrow things if you was meaning to pay them back some time; but the widow said it warn't anything but a soft name for stealing, and no decent body would do it.

My complaint simply concerns the decay of the art of lying.