Quotes about Ethics
Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established
— Confucius
We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do.
— Brigham Young
Integrity is the foundation upon which all other values are built.
— Brian Tracy
Be sure that, as you scramble up the ladder of success, it is leaning against the right building.
— Stephen Covey
The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
If success corrupts, I'm probably pretty corrupted by now.
— Bill Gates
There is one thing alone that stands the brunt of life throughout its course; a quiet conscience.
— Euripides
Success surely comes with conscience in the long run, other things being equal. Capacity and fidelity are commercially profitable qualities.
— Henry Ward Beecher
truth, she didn't care for rules of any sort; rules made little sense to a person who had grown up in a world without compassion or pity, where there was no moral code by which to abide.
— Alice Hoffman
Do as you will, but harm no one. What you give will be returned to you threefold.
— Alice Hoffman
We do not believe in heaven or hell...; we do not believe in eternal damnation. We believe only in the unavoidable horror of hurting others and of likewise being hurt.
— Alice Walker
The Lord don't like ugly, she say. And he ain't stuck on pretty.
— Alice Walker