Quotes about Ethics

I was taught in Bible college, religion and politics don't mix.

Most of us are aware of the sacrificial slaughter of Bear Sterns. Some people call it a bailout, but I call it a handout - a government handout to some of the richest people on Earth, paid for by American taxpayers.

To make your people understand what righteousness is, this must be the basis of all your teaching.

When a person has fallen in love with God, both his ethical commitments and aesthetical pleasures become focused and satisfying. But when the religious is lost, ethics devolves into, first, a fussy legalism, and then is swallowed up completely by the lust for personal satisfaction.

Every day ask yourself, "What would I do today if I were a better person?"

If you teach your children nothing else, teach them the Golden Rule and "righty-tighty, lefty-loosey."

Sometimes, to do the right thing, we must keep a promise we never made.

In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat.

But it ain't our feelings we have to steer by through life--no, no, we'd make shipwreck mighty often if we did that. There's only the one safe compass and we've got to set our course by that--what it's right to do.

We must have ideals and try to live up to them, even if we never quite succeed. Life would be a sorry business without them. With them it's grand and great.

never write a line you'd be ashamed to read at your own funeral.

Some people are naturally good, you know, and others are not. I'm one of the others.