Quotes about Ethics

Life, the way it really is, is a battle not between Bad and Good but between Bad and Worse.

Virtue is never left to stand alone. He who has it will have neighbors.

Life is neither a good nor an evil: it is a field for good and evil

Whatever you are, be a good one.

I learned one thing in Watergate: I was well-intentioned but rationalized illegal behavior, he said. You cannot live your life other than walking in the truth. Your means are as important as your ends.

The only guide to man is his conscience; the only shield to his memory is the rectitude and sincerity of his actions. It is very imprudent to walk through life without this shield, because we are so often mocked by the failure of our hopes and the upsetting of our calculations; but with this shield, however the fates may play, we march always in the ranks of honor.

Tsze-Kung asked, Is there one word which may serve as a rule of practice for all one's life? The Master said, Is not Reciprocity such a word? What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.

Conscience is the perfect interpreter of life.

The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life.

We have the duty to protect the life of an unborn child.

He that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious; and he that becomes suspicious will quickly become corrupt.

Your manners will depend very much upon the quality of what you frequently think on; for the soul is as it were tinged with the colour and complexion of thought.