Ethical Consistency Quotes

My work ethics have been the same whether it's in international cricket, first class, or even club cricket.

I don't like hypocrisy, I don't like double standards, it's probably why i'm vegan.

The ultimate foundation of honor is the conviction that moral character is unalterable: a single bad action implies that future actions of the same kind will, under similar circumstances, also be bad.

The only moral that is of any value is that which arises inevitably from the whole cast of the author's mind.

I never did, or countenanced, in public life, a single act inconsistent with the strictest good faith; having never believed there was one code of morality for a public, and another for a private man.

It will always be considered a praiseworthy undertaking to urge the most obstinate and incredulous to abide by the principles that impel men to live in society. There are, therefore, three distinct classes of vice and virtue: the religious, the natural, and the political. These three classes should never be in contradiction with one another.

If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men’s cottages princes’ palaces. It is a good divine that follows his own instructions: I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching.

Either we agree that any terrorism is unacceptable, or we will be playing a double-standard game where some son of a bitch is okay because he is our son of a bitch.

I think to keep my principles. To keep my principles, I think, is the most important thing. Every day, everyone change. It's normal, but your principle never can change.

If it is wrong for you to take money from someone else who earned it, to take their money by force for your own needs, then it is certainly just as wrong for you to demand that the government step forward and do this dirty work for you.

Good people suddenly don't turn bad.

The grand principles of virtue and honor, however they may be distorted by arbitrary codes, are the same the world over: and wherethese principles are concerned, the right or wrong of any action appears the same to the uncultivated as to the enlightened mind.

In the final analysis, means and ends must cohere because the end is preexistent in the means, and, ultimately, destructive means cannot bring about constructive ends.

There is no reason to believe that there is one law for families and another for nations.

Find people whose morals and vision align with yours, and follow that.

Those who are unjust in one Thing, will be so in others.

The man who in this world can keep the whiteness of his soul is not likely to lose it in any other.

We can't exempt ourselves from the same moral calculus that we are willing to apply to others.

It is ill changing the creed to meet each rising temptation. The soul is truer than it seems, and refuses to be trifled with.

Change your practices without abandoning your core values.