Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.
Henry David Thoreau
I learned years ago not to doze off or leave my wallet lying around in the presence of people who tell me that they are more moral than others.
Carl Rowan
The only obligation which I have a right to assume is to do at any time what I think right.
Henry David Thoreau
No government at any level and for any price can afford the police necessary to assure our safety and our freedom unless the overwhelming majority of us are guided by an inner personal code of morality.
Ronald Wilson Reagan
A man who silently lives by his ethics makes a more profound argument than one who deafens us with his shouting about them.
Gerry Spence
Do the thing that is right even when the boss isn’t looking because the boss isn’t a criterion. The real boss is standing alongside you every moment of your life.
Alfred Haake
Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.
Isaac Asimov
Our country has not ceased to glory in its strength, but it has come to a realization that it must have something more than numbers and wealth, something more than a fleet and an army, to satisfy the longing of the soul. It knows that to power must be added wisdom, and to greatness must be added morality.
Calvin Coolidge
Morality, it could be argued, represents the way that people would like the world to work - whereas economics represents how it actually does work.
Steven Levitt
If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.
Robert Louis Stevenson
To do evil that good may come of it is for bunglers in politics as well as morals.
William Penn
Time and again, the ethics of men and women have proven no match for a lucrative incentive structure.
Michael Burry
Our instincts about morality, like everything else about us, must have evolved to enhance our reproductive fitness in a certain environment. But like our instincts about what to eat, our moral instincts aren't always well adapted for the modern world. For that reason—and also because reproductive fitness is not the only thing we care about—our instincts are worth reexamining and occasionally transcending.
Steven Landsburg
One man who minds his own business is more valuable to the world than 10,000 cocksure moralists.
H. L. Mencken
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