Quotes about Ethics
All human sin seems so much worse in its consequences than in its intentions.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
Bad seed is a robbery of the worst kind: for your pocket-book not only suffers by it, but your preparations are lost and a season passes away unimproved.
— George Washington
It's very important for people to know themselves and understand what their value system is, because if you don't know what your value system is, then you don't know what risks are worth taking and which ones are worth avoiding.
— Ben Carson
Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
But I contend that if we're providing total medical coverage for every man, woman, and child in Iraq, shouldn't we at least be doing the same thing for every man, woman, and child in the United States?
— Tony Campolo
I would describe myself as a 'total conservative, a conscientious one.'
— Mike Huckabee
Honesty is always the best policy, even when it's not the trend.
— Sean Covey
He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.
— Seneca
He is not guilty who is not guilty of his own free will.
— Seneca
Let wickedness escape as it may at the bar, it never fails of doing justice upon itself; for every guilty person is his own hangman
— Seneca
As was his language so was his life.
— Seneca
He who spares the wicked injures the good.
— Seneca