Ethics Quotes
- A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both. — Dwight D. Eisenhower
- What loneliness is more lonely than distrust? — George Eliot
- Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- I don't think Christmas is necessarily about things. It's about being good to one another, it's about the Christian ethic, it's about kindness. — Carrie Fisher
- One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life. — E. M. Forster
- A promise must never be broken. — Alexander Hamilton
- Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons. — Thomas Hardy
- If you want something you can have it, but you have to do some work. It's the ethic my mother brought me up with. — Joanne Harris
- A pure hand needs no glove to cover it. — Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Every man, in his own opinion, forms an exception to the ordinary rules of morality. — William Hazlitt
- Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand… — Ben Hecht
- When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen. — Ernest Hemingway
- Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know… — Patrick Henry
- It's that wonderful old-fashioned idea that others come first and you come second. This was the whole ethic by which I was brought up. Others… — Audrey Hepburn
- The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action. — Frank Herbert
- Dare to be true. Nothing can need a lie: a fault which needs it most, grows two thereby. — George Herbert
- Ordinary morality is innate in my view. — Christopher Hitchens
- It is futile to judge a kind deed by its motives. Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind. — Eric Hoffer
- The greatest movement for social justice our country has ever known is the civil rights movement and it was totally rooted in a love ethic. — Bell Hooks
- When a man has no reason to trust himself, he trusts in luck. — E. W. Howe