Quotes about Ethics
Be more concerned with your character than with your reputation, for your character is what you are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.
- Dale Carnegie
Pro-lifers have long been castigated for bringing private values into the public square. But actually it is the pro-abortion position that is based on merely personal views and values.
- Nancy Pearcey
More and more movies have been pressured to allow reporters and TV cameras to come onto the set while you're working, and I find that a real violation.
- Holly Hunter
Even if torture works, what is the point of 'defending' America using a tactic that is a fundamental violation of what America ought to mean?
- Phil Klay
Virtue is its own reward, and brings with it the truest and highest pleasure; but if we cultivate it only for pleasure's sake, we are selfish, not religious, and will never gain the pleasure, because we can never have the virtue.
- John Henry Newman
In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice.
- Marquis de Sade
Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principle of evil.
- Albert Camus
There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion.
- William Hazlitt
The superior man does not, even for the space of a single meal, act contrary to virtue. In moments of haste, he cleaves to it. In seasons of danger, he cleaves to it.
- Confucius
Silver and gold are not the only coin; virtue too passes current all over the world.
- Euripides
What most men call their conscience is imaginary virtue switching left or right according to self-interest.
- Vernon Howard
Reputation is rarely proportioned to virtue.
- Francis de Sales