Quotes about Ethics

To understand the true quality of people, you must look into their minds, and examine their pursuits and aversions.

Proverbs were anterior to boots, and formed the wisdom of the vulgar, and in the earliest ages were the unwritten laws of morality.

Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of man.

The upright are richer in deeds than the wealthy are in gold.

It is better to lose friends than to lose your reputation, and better to lose riches than to lose your integrity.

Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.

Look, I do spray flies, but I have a really big conscience.

The business of America is business, but it's about high-integrity business. It's about a business where you keep your word, where you make square deals.

There are definitely designers that I love, people I love to work with. And who they are as people matters. Are they good people? Do they treat their staff well? Do they treat my staff well? Are they young? Can I give them a boost? But when all of that is equal... is it cute?

I think a lot of people in America do not understand that the basis of true liberty can't happen without an objective moral standard by which we live our lives.

It's in our ability to selectively engage and disengage our moral standards, and it helps explain how people can be barbarically cruel in one moment and compassionate the next.

Standards of conduct appropriate to civil society or the workings of a democracy cannot be purely and simply applied to the Church.