Quotes About Ethics

You know we do not make such judgments, said Shushu. Business is business. We do not question whether our customers are 'good' or 'evil.' Once we did, said the older witch. When the Bill of Rights-

A true friend cares more about what is right than about pleasing you.

Trust is a fragile commodity. Know your code of conduct and the values you stand for. Remember: if you wouldn't want to explain it on '60 Minutes,' don't do it.

I look for three things in hiring people. The first is personal integrity, the second is intelligence, and the third is a high energy level. But, if you don't have the first, the other two will kill you.

Good comes to those who lend money generously and conduct their business fairly. —Psalm 112:5

But when Peter came to Antioch, I had to oppose him to his face, for what he did was very wrong. —Galatians 2:11

Keep yourself completely above reproach; avoid even the appearance of wrongdoing (see 1 Thessalonians 5:22, KJV).

Will Durant once said, "To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.

America ... loves the successful sociopath and thinks it's normal to dream of becoming like him.

If you look at it from the right point of view, lying is just good manners.

It is a capital insult in this country not to make love to a naked woman, even if she is related to you.

We lived in a country that rewarded its worst people. We lived in a society where the villains were favored to win.

You must realize that these are abnormal times and there's no way that any of us can keep ourselves pure

Don't imagine that we're doing ecological politics to save the world. We're doing ecological politics to save ourselves, to save our souls. It's a personal exercise in character and in manners. It's a matter of etiquette. It's a matter of living right. It's not that the planet requires us to be good to it. It's that we must do it because it's an aesthetic and ethical choice.

We can no longer think that the fate of humanity and that of the nonhuman world are independent of each other

To speak well is part of living well.

Most humans subscribe to the policy of 'an eye for an eye, a life for a life'. Many of your religions are famous for this formula, which is well known throughout the UNIVERSE for its stupidity. Your christ and your buddah had a different vision, but nobody paid any attention to them, not even the christians and buddhists.

Any beings who would destroy another WORLD always destroy themselves first.

Why is it that postmodernists, who believe there are no moral absolutes, are so moralistic?

There is no right or wrong apart from what you decide. Who you chose to defend deserves to be defended simply because you chose them. You are the Fire Lord. What you chose, by definition, is right.

Ozai: What I'm saying is this -- There is no right or wrong apart from what you decide, who you choose to defend deserves to be defended simply because

Better to be good without reason than to be evil for a hundred good reasons.

It's a pity you are a torturer," Ultan said. "You might have been a philosopher.

In our commercial society, one may set one's price as high as one wishes, but to refuse to sell at any price is treason.