Quotes about Ethics

What holds the laws of a nation? It is the moral soil that must hold the roots.

The moral law will always stand over and above and against a heart that seeks to be its own guide. One

The god you worship is the god you deserve.

mankind is resilient: the atrocities that horrified us a week ago become acceptable tomorrow.

They're not going to send a crazy man out to be killed, are they?" "Who else will go?

Rise above principal and do what's right.

Major Major had lied, and it was good. He was not really surprised that it was good, for he had observed that people who did lie were, on the whole, more resourceful and ambitious and successful than people who did not lie.

People have a right to do anything that's not forbidden by law, and there's no law against lying to you.

What could you do? Major Major asked himself again. What could you do with a man who looked you squarely in the eye and said he would rather die than be killed in combat, a man who was at least as mature and intelligent as you were and who you had to pretend was not? What could you say to him?

He advocated thrift and hard work and disapproved of loose women who turned him down.

Ideals are good, but people are sometimes not so good.

Compromise means to go just a little bit below what you know is right. It's just a little bit, but it's the little foxes that spoil the vine.