Charlie Munger Quotes

In point of morals, the average woman is, even for business, too crooked.

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

I should not deal with things that aren't founded on ethical principles, because that's not who I am as a human being.

There can be no question of holding forth on ethics. I have seen people behave badly with great morality and I note every day that integrity has no need of rules

Rationality tied to moral decency is the most powerful joint instrument for good that our planet has ever known.

The very essence of our civilization is that we give a paramount place to morality in all our affairs, public or private.

Morality has nothing to do with such a man as I am.

A person who is fundamentally honest doesn't need a code of ethics. The Ten Commandments and the Sermon on the Mount are all the ethical code anybody needs.

I have a pretty keen ethical compass.

A man may not transgress the bounds of major morals, but may make errors in minor morals.

Perhaps the most significant moral characteristic of a nation is its hypocrisy.

When one has no character, one HAS to apply a method. Here it did wonders incontrovertibly, and I am living on the site of one of the greatest crimes in human history.

Life is moral responsibility.

If throughout your life you abstain from murder, theft, fornication, perjury, blasphemy, and disrespect toward your parents, church, and your king, you are conventionally held to deserve moral admiration even if you have never done a single kind, generous or useful action. This very inadequate notion of virtue is an outcome of taboo morality, and has done untold harm.

No matter what is the environment around you, it is always possible to maintain your brand of integrity

People have no morals, I swear to God. The things that people do for ratings! It's unforgivable.

Morality is the thing upon which your friends smile, and immorality is the thing upon which they frown

Without integrity and conscience we lose our freedom.

Those who are most moral are farthest from the problem.

No man is so exquisitely honest or upright in living, but that ten times in his life he might not lawfully be hanged.

We follow the codes not because they bring gain, but because we loathe the people we would otherwise become.

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

If you are doing something for reward or punishment, you do not have morality.

What we take for virtue is often nothing but an assemblage of different actions, and of different interests, that fortune or our industry knows how to arrange.

The key to acting with integrity is to simply stop playing the game.