Quotes About Ethics

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; then, the rules of battle become more stringent. The politics that lead to war can always be argued, but there is an undeniable sympathy that must be extended when a woman leaves a man.

The ingestion of brain-altering chemicals - legal or illegal - cannot be categorized as good stewardship of our earthly lives.

It wasn't a big deal to marry your half-brother in those times; there just weren't enough people on earth for people to start getting picky about incest.

Polygraph tests are 20th-century witchcraft.

Hard work spotlights the character of people some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.

What I'm asking you to entertain is that there is nothing we need to believe on insufficient evidence in order to have deeply ethical and spiritual lives.

Lying is, almost by definition, a refusal to cooperate with others. It condenses a lack of trust and trustworthiness into a single act. It is both a failure of understanding and an unwillingness to be understood. To lie is to recoil from relationship.

We read the Golden Rule and judge it to be a brilliant distillation of many of our ethical impulses. And then we come across another of God's teachings on morality: if a man discovers on his wedding night that his bride is not a virgin, he must stone her to death on her father's doorstep (Deuteronomy 22:13-21).

But, she remembers, you always have to assume that the present is real. It's the only way to remain sane. It's the only way to remain ethical.

An organization's values tell everyone how they will act inside the walls of the organization. You, as a leader, cannot tolerate any action that goes against those values.

Consequences Culturally, we have drifted away from accountability in this country for at least the last generation and perhaps longer. The consequences have been more dire than most people realize. —Richard Chambers

There was no question that the captains who made a habit of testing the boundaries of the rules would never be revered by the public the way Derek Jeter was. But this theory suggested that calling their behavior thuggish was an oversimplification. These were aggressive acts that pushed the limits of what's acceptable, but they were also instrumental.

Beyond this, most of the Tier One captains had zero interest in the trappings of fame. They didn't pursue the captaincy for the prestige it conveyed—if they pursued it at all. In 2004, when Carles Puyol's teammates unanimously elected him captain, his was the only dissenting vote. "I thought it was more ethical to vote for others," he told me.

The two most important words I ever wrote were on that first Wal-Mart sign: "Satisfaction Guaranteed." They're still up there, and they have made all the difference.

Villains arise from intellectualism without spirituality: a vivid manifestation of the Antichrist. Obviously, the villain, in and for itself, is the Antichrist.

There are no good guys or bad guys. Not really

We decide, on issues large and small, whether we will be bystanders or upstanders.

I believed that the most important part of decision-making was not the justness of one's intentions but the effectiveness of one's actions.

It's better to have a hole in your team than an asshole in your team!

Nothing is more essential to the establishment of manners in a State than that all persons employed in places of power and trust must be men of unexceptionable characters.

I have been committed to carrying out my duties... in accordance with both the letter and spirit of all applicable rules of ethics and canons of conduct.

Honesty consists not in never stealing but in knowing where to stop in stealing, and how to make good use of what one does steal.

Justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes.

Half the vices which the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in them and require moderate use rather than total abstinence.