Mark Twain Quotes

We're coming down to an extremely unethical society. Very few colleges offer courses in ethics, and very few companies have a code of conduct or code of ethics.

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.

I'm not any more moral than my neighbors.

You're either a person with a conscience, or you're not. I think I've got quite a fine conscience.

Call me old-fashioned, but I believe that morality is not just a matter of opinion.

There is a yearning for people to return to elementary moral virtues, such as integrity and commitment. We distrust people who have no centering of values. We greatly respect businessmen, for example, if they display those virtues, even if we don't necessarily agree with the people.

The notion that public service requires men and women of good character now seems quaint.

I don't want to do anything that violates my own personal code of ethics and morals.

I'll never go against my morals.

A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.

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.

Morality which depends upon the helplessness of a man or woman has not much to recommend it. Morality is rooted in the purity of our hearts.

I try not to do anything that's immoral.

Be sensible, that is, cease to be honest.

All effective actions require the passport of morality.

It's difficult in the abstract to appreciate that those with morally objectionable viewpoints can still be good people.

One needs to know what is right and what is wrong.

I've still got my senses about me, and I know what's right and wrong, which is the main thing.

What, shall one of us, That struck for the foremost man of all this world But for supporting robbers--shall we now Contaminate our fingers with base bribes, And sell the mighty space of our large honors For so much trash as may be grasped thus?

There is no such thing as a minor lapse of integrity

A man of business will often deceive you without the slightest scruple, but he will absolutely refuse to commit a theft.

Want of principle is power. Truth and honesty set a limit to our efforts, which impudence and hypocrisy easily overleap.

Have you no morals, man?' 'Can't afford them,Governor.

The person that loses their conscience has nothing left worth keeping.

If you do not know the laws of right conduct, you cannot form your character.