Quotes about Ethics
We may argue eloquently that 'Honesty is the best Policy' - unfortunately, the moment honesty is adopted for the sake of policy it mysteriously ceases to be honesty.
- Dorothy Sayers
The fun of talk is to explore, but much of it and all that is irresponsible should not be written. Once written you have to stand by it. You may have said it to see whether you believed it or not.
- Ernest Hemingway
Nothing is quite honest that is not commercial, but not everything commercial is honest.
- Robert Frost
A nation's domestic and foreign policies and actions should be derived from the same standards of ethics, honesty and morality which are characteristic of the individual citizens of the nation.
- Jimmy Carter
Honesty will be found on every experiment, to be the best and only true policy; let us then as a Nation be just.
- George Washington
We must not allow ourselves to become like the system we oppose. We cannot afford to use methods of which we will be ashamed when we look back, when we say, '...we shouldn't have done that.'
- Desmond Tutu
Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom.
- Thomas Jefferson
The best of all lost arts is honesty.
- Mark Twain
I hope I shall always possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles the character of an "Honest Man."
- George Washington
When there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned.
- Herbert Hoover
Honor lies in honest toil.
- Grover Cleveland
Honor your commitments with integrity.
- Les Brown