Tommy Lee Jones Quotes

Civilization depends on morality.

In just about every area of society, there's nothing more important than ethics.

There was one 'crime' during the whole time I was at school, when a fountain pen went missing. Stealing just didn't happen. I was taught not to shoplift, not to steal, not to behave badly. We weren't even allowed to drop litter.

In civilized life, law floats in a sea of ethics. Each is indispensable to civilization. Without law, we should be at the mercy of the least scrupulous; without ethics, law could not exist.

Would that the simple maxim, that honesty is the best policy, might be laid to heart; that a sense of the true aim of life might elevate the tone of politics and trade till public and private honor become identical.

Be fair in all your dealings, may it be in your family or in your business. At the end of it all, what matters is not how much money you make but how honest you are.

Every night I go over what I did in the day, in ethical or moral terms. Have I treated people properly? Did I tell the truth?

Observe decorum, and it will open a path to morality.

To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

Good morals lead to good laws.

I think the British people have a strong sense of what is fair.

I think the kids today need to hear more about morals and values.

Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor.

Moral values, and a culture and a religion, maintaining these values are far better than laws and regulations.

You can't have integrity for breakfast, but try and keep it because it is perhaps the single most important word that defines not just writers but all human beings.

Ethics are more important than laws.

Frankly, right is right and wrong is wrong, particularly when a parent is talking to a child. A bright line around moral responsibility is very important.

I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.

Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offence.

Moral character has now some influence in our elections, but not that place which it deserves. The law of public opinion excludes confirmed sots, and persons judicially convicted of high crimes and misdemeanors against the State; but it ought to render the election of all profane swearers, notorious Sabbath breakers, seducers, slanderers, prodigals and riotous persons, as well as the advocates of dueling, impracticable.

The headquarters of good principles.

Our policies must be premised on, and must reinforce, values such as family, hard work, integrity and personal responsibility.

Never act in breach of trust ., Live morally, do not aspire for other's Wealth, Women and God ., Consume according to your requirements and contribute the rest to the society Earn wealth through honest and truthful work.

Virtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government.

Moroccan boys never steal from Moroccans.