Quotes about Ethics

Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, which course is patriotic and which isn't. You cannot shirk this and be a man. To decide against your conviction is to be an unqualified and excusable traitor, both to yourself and to your country, let me label you as they may.

The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to other creatures but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot.

The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right.

To be good is noble, but to teach others how to be good is nobler--and less trouble.

Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.

On an occasion of this kind it becomes more than a moral duty to speak one's mind. It becomes a pleasure.

It makes no sense to invest in [fossil fuel] companies that undermine our future.

A nation that kills its own children has no future.

We've staked our future on our ability to follow the Ten Commandments with all our heart.

But the only possible guarantee of the future is responsible behavior in the present.

The shape of your character is the shape of your future.

practically nothing we do ever stands by itself. If it is good, it will serve some good purpose in the future. If it is evil, it may haunt us and handicap our efforts in unimagined ways.