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“If it be a sin to covet honor, I am the most offending soul.”
Source: The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: Henry IV, pt. 2. Henry V. Henry VI, pts. 1-3
“The first and only principle of sexual ethics: the accuser is always in the wrong.”
Source: Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life
“We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.”
Source: Back to Methuselah
“More often there's a compromise between ethics and expediency.”
“I don't think there's anything in the compromise that means that there's a clash of ethics.”
“I think ethics is always there; it's not always a very thoughtful or reflective ethics.”
“A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.”
Source: John Ploughman's Talk; or, plain advice for plain people
“Must is a hard nut to crack, but it has a sweet kernel.”
Source: Essential Works of Charles Spurgeon
“Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners.”
“It is better that ten guilty persons escape than one innocent suffer.”
“If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it they are wrong.”
“The cruelest lies are often told in silence.”
Source: Virginibus Puerisque: An Essay in Four Parts
“Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have a right to do and what is right to do.”
“Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.”
Source: Fear and Loathing at Rolling Stone: The Essential Writing of Hunter S. Thompson
“Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith.”
Source: Democracy in America
“It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.”
Source: Autobiography of Mark Twain
“It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.”
Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations
“Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.”
Source: Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist
Source: The quiet crisis and the next generation
Source: The Writings of George Washington: pt. I. Official letters relating to the French war, and private letters before the American revolution: March, 1754-May, 1775
“Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair; the rest is in the hands of God.”
Source: The Quotable George Washington: The Wisdom of an American Patriot