“I do not believe in the immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern without any superhuman authority behind it.”
Albert Einstein

“All my growth and development led me to believe that if you really do the right thing, and if you play by the rules, and if you’ve got good enough, solid judgment and common sense, that you’re going to be able to do whatever you want to do with your life.”
Barbara Jordan

“On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.”
George Orwell

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

“Always do right–this will gratify some and astonish the rest.”
Mark Twain

“Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.”
Plato

“Ethics is a code of values which guide our choices and actions and determine the purpose and course of our lives.”
Ayn Rand, Russian-American novelist and philosopher (1905-1982)

“There’s a hole in the moral ozone and it’s getting bigger.”
Michael Josephson, American ethicist

“It is curious – curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare.”
Mark Twain

“Integrity is doing the right thing, even if nobody is watching.”
Unknown

“Live so that when your children think of fairness and integrity, they think of you.”
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

“A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.”
Albert Camus

“In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs it is the rule.”
Friedrich Nietzsche

“I consider ethics, as well as religion, as supplements to law in the government of man.”
Thomas Jefferson