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Ethics Quotes by Mark Twain
- The moral sense enables one to perceive morality, and avoid it. The immoral sense enables one to perceive immorality and enjoy it.
- In statesmanship get formalities right, never mind about the moralities.
- It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
- Man is the only animal that blushes - or needs to.
- Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.
- Schoolboy days are no happier than the days of afterlife, but we look back upon them regretfully because we have forgotten our punishments at school…
- It is curious - curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare
- Morals are an acquirement - like music, like a foreign language, like piety, poker, paralysis - no man is born with them.
More Ethics Quotes
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- Ethics are not necessarily to do with being law-abiding. I am very interested in the moral path, doing the right thing. — Kate Atkinson
- I want to be very close to someone I respect and admire and have somebody who feels the same way about me. — Richard Bach
- What I respect in people more than anything is work ethic. And Justin Timberlake's got that. He works his tail off, and… — Amy Adams
- You do not know our culture, our ethics, or the unwritten codes that already provide our society more order than could be… — John Perry Barlow
- ... the friendship of worthless people has a bad effect (because they take part, unstable as they are, in worthless pursuits, and… — Aristotle
- Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right. — Isaac Asimov
- I like Cinderella, I really do. She has a good work ethic. I appreciate a good, hard-working gal. And she likes shoes.… — Amy Adams