I learned years ago not to doze off or leave my wallet lying around in the presence of people who tell me that they are more moral than others. Carl Rowan

• trust
• honesty
• morals

The only obligation which I have a right to assume is to do at any time what I think right. Henry David Thoreau

• morals
• duty
• responsibility

No government at any level and for any price can afford the police necessary to assure our safety and our freedom unless the overwhelming majority of us are guided by an inner personal code of morality. Ronald Wilson Reagan

• morals
• security

A man who silently lives by his ethics makes a more profound argument than one who deafens us with his shouting about them. Gerry Spence

• morals
• silence

Do the thing that is right even when the boss isn’t looking because the boss isn’t a criterion. The real boss is standing alongside you every moment of your life. Alfred Haake

• conscience
• morals

Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right. Isaac Asimov

• morals

Our country has not ceased to glory in its strength, but it has come to a realization that it must have something more than numbers and wealth, something more than a fleet and an army, to satisfy the longing of the soul. It knows that to power must be added wisdom, and to greatness must be added morality. Calvin Coolidge

• wisdom
• America
• morals

Morality, it could be argued, represents the way that people would like the world to work - whereas economics represents how it actually does work. Steven Levitt

• morals
• economics

If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong. Robert Louis Stevenson

• virtue
• morals

To do evil that good may come of it is for bunglers in politics as well as morals. William Penn

• politics
• politicians
• morals
• evil

Time and again, the ethics of men and women have proven no match for a lucrative incentive structure. Michael Burry

• morals
• greed

Our instincts about morality, like everything else about us, must have evolved to enhance our reproductive fitness in a certain environment. But like our instincts about what to eat, our moral instincts aren't always well adapted for the modern world. For that reason—and also because reproductive fitness is not the only thing we care about—our instincts are worth reexamining and occasionally transcending. Steven Landsburg

• morals

One man who minds his own business is more valuable to the world than 10,000 cocksure moralists. H. L. Mencken

• morals

A man does what he must - in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures - and that is the basis of all human morality. Sir Winston Churchill

• courage
• morals

The principle that the end justifies the means is in individualist ethics regarded as the denial of all morals. In collectivist ethics it becomes necessarily the supreme rule. F. A. Hayek

• morals
• socialism

I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. Robert Heinlein

• freedom
• morals