A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both. – Dwight D. Eisenhower
The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated. – Henry Louis Mencken
In spite of everything, I still believe that people are good at heart. – Anne Frank
The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal is integrity. – Zig Ziglar
Morality is a private and costly luxury. – Henry Adams
Morality is only moral when it is voluntary. – Lincoln Steffens
Everything of value is defenseless. – Lucebert
The rules of morality are not the conclusion of our reason. – David Hume
I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false estimates they have made of the value of things. – Benjamin Franklin
Old age, especially an honored old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth. – Marcus Tullius Cicero
Great is the issue at stake, greater than appears, whether a man is to be good or bad. And what will any one be profited if, under the influence of money or power, he neglect justice and virtue? – Plato
No one can be perfectly free till all are free; no one can be perfectly moral till all are moral; no one can be perfectly happy till all are happy. – Herbert Spencer
A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him. – Albert Schweitzer
Morality is the custom of one’s country and the current feeling of one’s peers. – Samuel Butler
Even the most rational approach to ethics is defenseless if there isn’t the will to do what is right. – Alexander Solzhenitsyn
The salvation of mankind lies only in making everything the concern of all. – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Good and evil are asymmetrical; there are more ways to harm people than to help them, and harmful acts can hurt them to a greater degree than virtuous acts can make them better off. – Steven Pinker
A human being is not to be handled as a tool but is to be respected and revered. – Felix Adler
Don’t worry so much about your self-esteem. Worry more about your character. Integrity is its own reward. – Laura Schlessinger
Ordinary morality is innate in my view. – Christopher Hitchens
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