Ethics Quotes

"Doing the right thing is never the wrong thing." "The good of the people is the chief law" "The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil" "The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk" "Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil" "It is not your business to succeed, but to do right; when you have done so, the rest lies with God" "The most practical kind of politics is the politics of decency." "If you must break the law, do it to seize power; in all other cases observe it" "The man who passes the sentence should swing the sword" "It’s better to be hanged for loyalty than be rewarded for betrayal" "Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do" "Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought" "In whom there is no sympathy for living beings: know him as an outcast." "When in doubt, tell the truth." "Always tell the truth. That way, you don't have to remember what you said." "Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none." "Our chief usefulness to humanity rests on our combining power with high purpose. Power undirected by high purpose spells calamity, and high purpose by itself is utterly useless if the power to put it into effect is lacking." "Peace is normally a great good, and normally it coincides with righteousness, but it is righteousness and not peace which should bind the conscience of a nation as it should bind the conscience of an individual; and neither a nation nor an individual can s" "A vote is like a rifle: its usefulness depends upon the character of the user." "Knowing what's right doesn't mean much unless you do what's right."