Quotes about Ethics

Never lie, never cheat, never steal.

Lying, stealing, and cheating are commonplace.

What man's mind can create, man's character can control.

Do what you can to do what you ought, and leave hoping and fearing alone.

I protest that if some great Power would agree to make me always think what is true and do what is right, on condition of being turned into a sort of clock and would up every morning before I got out of bed, I should instantly close with the offer.

It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read.

Health is the requisite after morality.

In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.

A nation as a society forms a moral person, and every member of it is personally responsible for his society

If God is just, I tremble for my country.

That one hundred and fifty lawyers should do business together ought not to be expected.

Political Liberty consists in the power of doing whatever does not injure another. The exercise of the natural rights of every [human], has no other limits than those which are necessary to secure to every other [human] the free exercise of the same rights.