Quotes about Ethics
Free trade is not based on utility but on justice.
— Edmund Burke
If we are to go forward, we must go back and rediscover those precious values - that all reality hinges on moral foundations and that all reality has spiritual control.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Since belief determines behavior, doesn't it make sense that we should be teaching ethical, moral values in every home and in every school in America?
— Zig Ziglar
Some days one has no choice but to deal with Society's filth....Our world isn't getting any better--or cleaner Elizabeth. I don't know how people can treat one another the way they do. Or themselves, for that matter.
— Janette Oke
Condition comes from hard work during practice and proper mental and moral conduct between practices.
— John Wooden
When one's character begins to fall under suspicion and disfavor, how swift, then, is the work of disintegration and destruction.
— Mark Twain
The greatest work in all the world is the building of men and women of character. Without character there is not much that is worthwhile.
— Ezra Taft Benson
The fruit does not make the tree good or bad but the tree itself is what determines the nature of the fruit. In the same way, a person first must be good or bad before doing a good or bad work.
— Martin Luther
What men of science want is only a fair day's wages for more than a fair day's work.
— Thomas Henry Huxley
I have never obtained any ethical values from my scientific work.
— Albert Einstein
Our policies must be premised on, and must reinforce, values such as family, hard work, integrity and personal responsibility.
— Dan Quayle
I have spoken to people in intelligence. And they are big believers in, as an example, waterboarding. Because they say it does work. It does work.
— Donald Trump