Quotes about Ethics

Salary matters shouldn't be told to everyone. It's a matter of respect for my teammates.

I never agreed too much about players talking about former teammates when they go somewhere else. I've never been a fan of that.

Dear intelligent people of the world, don't get shampoo in your eyes. It really stings. There. Done. Now fucking stop torturing animals.

Spirituality really lost its way when it became a stick to beat people with: 'Do this or you'll burn in hell.

I don't think it matters if there is a god or not. I've met people who believe in God that are good and that are bad. And I've met people who don't believe in God that are good and that are bad. So, just be good. I'm good. Not cos I think I'll go to heaven but because when I do something bad, I feel bad. And when I do something good, I feel good.

When a person has fallen in love with God, both his ethical commitments and aesthetical pleasures become focused and satisfying. But when the religious is lost, ethics devolves into, first, a fussy legalism, and then is swallowed up completely by the lust for personal satisfaction.

Every day ask yourself, "What would I do today if I were a better person?"

If you teach your children nothing else, teach them the Golden Rule and "righty-tighty, lefty-loosey."

Sometimes, to do the right thing, we must keep a promise we never made.

In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat.

But it ain't our feelings we have to steer by through life--no, no, we'd make shipwreck mighty often if we did that. There's only the one safe compass and we've got to set our course by that--what it's right to do.

We must have ideals and try to live up to them, even if we never quite succeed. Life would be a sorry business without them. With them it's grand and great.