Quotes About Ethics

A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.

Punic faith.

Ambition drove many men to become false to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue.

The soul is the captain and ruler of the life of morals.

If a man is ambitious for power, he can have no better supporters than the poor: They are not worried about their own possessions, since they have none, and whatever will put something in their pockets is right and proper in their eyes." (Jugurthine War 86.3)

T]he public interest, as is too frequently the case, was defeated by private influence.

Denn nur wenige Menschen wollen die Freiheit, ein großer Teil aber gerechte Herren.

namque, uti paucis verum absolvam, post illa tempora quicumque rem publicam agitavêre, honestis nominibus, alii sicuti populi iura defenderent, pars quo senatûs auctoritas maxima foret, bonum publicum simulantes pro suâ quisque potentiâ certabant.

malis moribus, maxima spe

ita in maximâ fortunâ minima licentia est;

imitari quam invidere bonis malebant.

omnia mala exempla ex rebus bonis orta sunt.

magis quid se dignum foret, quam quid in illos iure fieri posset, quaerebant.

There is always a price to pay when one tinkers with the truth.

think my father came to believe long ago what Rhett Butler told Scarlett: reputation is something people with character can do without. Character and character

We never thought of it as customer service. We just treat people how we would want to be treated.

Human makes the rules, human breaks the rules. Just in the middle of time in that others suffer for good or bad.

Learn to talk honestly, truthfully, logically, ethically, and boldly.

Sometimes I feel I hope I am not taking advantage of my stardom.

From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.

A photograph is a moral decision taken in one eighth of a second.

The Anglo-Saxon conscience doesn't keep you from doing what you shouldn't; it just keeps you from enjoying it.

The Anglo-Saxon conscience doesn't keep you from doing anything. It just keeps you from enjoying it.

You cannot kill or steal from a man while he is asleep and heartbroken. While it is said that everything is fair in love an war, the dictum is nullified when both love and war occur simultaneously...