Quotes About Morality

Moral power is probably best when it is not used. The less you use it the more you have.

The best way is to say that as a Christian for me the essence of Christian faith is that you treat others as if you wish to be treated.

The best way I know of to win an argument is to start by being in the right.

We're the worst thing because for us the worst thing is the best thing. And it's only the best thing for us if it's the worst thing for someone else.

I just try to live the right way the best I can. I make plenty of mistakes but I just try to do the best I can and be a great example for my kids.

The tragedy of Africa is that Africans are in the business of canonizing thieves and demonizing its saints.

Do not hold grain waiting for higher prices when people are hungry.

The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison wall.

Doing the right thing is more important than doing the thing right.

There is no such thing as business ethics. There is only one kind -- you have to adhere to the highest standards.

People who have tried it, tell me that a clear conscience makes you very happy and contented; but a full stomach does the business quite as well, and is cheaper, and more easily obtained.

Why should we tell kidnappers, murderers, and embezzlers their rights? If they don't know their rights, they shouldn't be in the business.

Hire character. Train skill.

It is not the business of the law to make anyone good or reverent or moral or clean or upright.

It's good to stand for something, to believe in something and base your business on values.

Relativity applies to physics, not ethics.

Nothing is illegal if one hundred businessmen decide to do it.

A business model that relies on trickery is doomed to fail.

You know something? I'm decent! There isn't a great deal of decency in the world, especially in our business, and I'm one of the few really decent ladies around.

I feel the one sensible thing you can do is try to live in a way that pleases you. If you don't hurt anybody else, what you do is your own business.

We would like to believe that we are not in the business of surviving but in being good, and we do not like to admit to ourselves that we are good in order to survive.

The Golden Rule finds no limit of application in business.

Commercialism is doing well that which should not be done at all.

We must intertwine business and ethics in a very fundamental way.