Quotes about Ethics
Conscience is a formidable and determined adversary. By nature, it strikes the weakest point in a man's reasoning.
- Lisa Wingate
And when she was good She was very, very good, But when she was bad she was horrid. HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW
- Liz Curtis Higgs
What are the things that you can't see that are important? I would say justice, truth, humility, service, compassion, love. They're the guiding lights of a life.
- Jimmy Carter
It seems somewhat illogical to say, You have violated God's commandment 'Thou shalt not kill,' so therefore I will kill you.
- Jimmy Carter
There is no shame in being the object of a crime. You did not choose to be the object.
- JM Coetzee
A secretary must think like a man act like a lady look like a girl - and work like a dog.
- Anonymous
There are no good girls gone wrong - just bad girls found out.
- Mae West
The worse a person is the less he feels it.
- Seneca
All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can't be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot.
- Henry Ward Beecher
All sensible people are selfish, and nature is tugging at every contract to make the terms of it fair.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We have the wolf by the ears, and we can neither hold him, nor safely let him go. Justice is in one scale, and self-preservation in the other.
- Thomas Jefferson
In times like the present, men should utter nothing for which they would not willingly be responsible through time and eternity.
- Abraham Lincoln