Quotes about Ethics

Religion is to do right. It is to love, it is to serve, it is to think, it is to be humble.

Civilization depends on morality.

No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.

The foundation of culture, as of character, is at last the moral sentiment.

Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.

There are two laws discrete,Not reconciled—Law for man, and law for thing.

Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.

To live without duties is obscene.

Wouldst thou shut up the avenues of ill, Pay every debt as if God wrote the bill.

There is no den in the wide world to hide a rogue. Commit a crime and the earth is made of glass. Commit a crime, and it seems as if a coat of snow fell on the ground, such as reveals in the woods the track of every partridge, and fox, and squirrel.

You cannot do wrong without suffering wrong.

If you've been called to be a lawyer, don't stoop to be a king.