Quotes about Ethics

I never did think the truth was a crime.

I don't drink alcohol, I don't smoke and if I go out to a movie I like to watch things that are moral.

There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.

We take nothing to the grave with us, but a good or evil conscience... It is true, terrors of conscience cast us down; and yet without terrors of conscience we cannot be raised up again.

At any rate, we can see that they are given into our care, that we cannot just do whatever we want with them. Animals, too, are God's creatures.

One of the duties of fortitude is to keep the weak from receiving injury; another, to check the wrong motions of our own souls; a third, both to disregard humiliations, and to do what is right with an even mind. All these clearly ought to be fulfilled by all Christians, and especially by the clergy.

I don't want to just be the best player. I want to be a great person, too.

Mark Emmert, the head of the NCAA, makes millions. Coaches today are making millions. Who's not making anything? I don't want to hear about they get scholarships. Yeah, they get scholarships all right, they earn those scholarships.

I'm not a political person that much, but I've got common sense. I know when something's not right.

To kill, in war or in any circumstance, creates a silence. It is right that silence should surround the taking of life. After all, the life taken is not ours to take.

The moral systems of religion, I think, are super important.

There is no cure for the pride of a virtuous nation but pure religion.