Quotes About Ethics

Children inherent principles; they do not set them.

He should be careful. It's dangerous to be an honest man.

It was a lie but he believed in telling lies to people. Truth telling and medicine just didn't go together except in dire emergencies, if then.

it's just business nothing personal...

Oh, what a wicked world it is that drives a man to sin.

One lawyer with a briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns ...

A man's first duty is to keep himself alive. Then comes what everyone calls honor.

We don't know if capital punishment is a deterrent, but we know that men we execute will not murder again.

A lawyer with a briefcase can steal more than a thousand men with guns.

There are things that have to be done and you do them and you never talk about them.They can't be justified.You just do them.Then you forget it.

Everyone is responsible for everything he does

The Don always taught that when a man was generous, he must show the generosity as personal.

A belief in one's own virtue is far more dangerous than a belief in one's cunning.

Uxuriousness may be the last refuge of the honest man

Do not exercise power because it is easy to your hand. And do not get carried away with a certainty of victory when your intellect tells you there is even a hint of tragedy.

I'll tell you one thing you didn't learn from him: talking the way you're talking now. There are things that have to be done and you do them and you never talk about them. You don't try to justify them. They can't be justified. You just do them. Then you forget it.

The Don sighed. "Well, then I can't talk to you about how you should behave. Don't you want to finish school, don't you want to be a lawyer? Lawyers can steal more money with a briefcase than a thousand men with guns and masks.

A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns.

A belief in one's own virtue is far more dangerous than a belief in one's cunning.

My only business is to save souls in danger of hell. What a man does is his own business.

Una vez había oído decir a Don Corleone que un abogado, con su cartera de mano, podía robar más que un centenar de hombres con metralletas.

A life is sacred or it isn't. We can't adjust what we believe just because it causes us pain.

Bet, ak vai, cik ?auna bija pasaule, kas lika cilv?kam gr?kot.

Una cosa no has aprendido de él, Mike: a hablar de la forma en que lo estás haciendo. Hay cosas que deben hacerse y se hacen, pero nunca se habla de ellas. Uno no trata de justificarlas; no pueden ser justificadas. Se hacen, simplemente. Y luego se olvidan.