Quotes About Ethics

When you lead with integrity you won't always win, but you will always do the right thing.

Gray is not a substitute for black and white. You don't bump into people without saying you're sorry. When you shake hands, it's supposed to mean something. If someone is in trouble, you reach out.

Companies shouldn't use the law to prevent consumers from doing something legal.

If you do it with a trusted male elder of the church, IT'S TOTALLY OKAY BUT FOR GOD'S SAKE DON'T TELL ANYONE BECAUSE IT'S A HOLY SECRET! Here's some cab fare and a wet wipe.

It's easy to talk about being merciful and compassionate," I said to my donkey. "It's not so easy to figure out how to live that way.

Lobbyists used to operate by getting you to believe in what they were pushing. Now they operate by scaring you into wondering what will happen if you don't. Politics has become a job for the weak-minded and thin-skinned among us. The only principles these people know are the ones they're paid to have.

Life to me is the greatest of all games. The danger lies in treating it as a trivial game, a game to be taken lightly, and a game in which the rules don't matter much. The rules matter a great deal. The game has to be played fairly or it is no game at all. And even to win the game is not the chief end. The chief end is to win it honorably and splendidly.

There is a fun fact that suggests America has 40 lawyers for every engineer, whereas China, emerging as one of the world's most dynamic nations, has 40 engineers for every lawyer. I am not sure exactly what that says, but it can't be a plus for the United States. It may only be coincidence that the explosion in ethical and legal lapses in the business world parallels proportionately the increase in lawyers.

Once dishonesty is introduced, distrust becomes the hallmark of future dealings or associations.

Character is most determined by integrity and courage.

The confusion, frustration, stress, and fears that come with financial dilemmas can make even the most ethical of individuals vulnerable to bad choices.

I define those who have gained fame and fortune not so much by their achievements as by how they got there—the enormous odds they overcame, the dignity and courage they displayed in the process, the way they treated people ethically and fairly along the way.

William Pearson said that really what they were talking about at the end of the day was Martin Fowler constantly parking like a cunt.

The Presidency is not merely an administrative office. That's the least of it. It is more than an engineering job, efficient or inefficient. It is pre-eminently a place of moral leadership. —FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT

The war between the ideal and the real, between what's right and what's convenient, between the larger good and personal interest is the contest that unfolds in the soul of every American.

use the Lord's name in vain!

Afri?ka Velika jezera jesu Auschwitz današnjega vremena, no i na njima su se tako?er pojavljivali primjeri nevjerojatne ?ovje?nosti.

News used to hold itself to a higher plane, and slowly it has dissolved into, well, me.

If you don't stick to your values when they're being tested, they're not values: they're hobbies.

Do you want to be known for your demands for your rights, even at the potential cost of other people's lives? Or do you want to be known as the type of Christian who is happy to be inconvenienced to serve the weak around us?

Whoever is dishonest with very little will also be dishonest with much," Christ said (Luke 16:10).

It was weak to do unto others as you would have them do unto you. Rather, you should do unto others as you feared they were going to do unto you. Better to preemptively strike than to let "them" get you first.

Even if you believe there is no such thing as free will, it is impossible to live any kind of decent life based on that belief. Even if our personal choices are some deep fiction, we still have to convince ourselves to get out of bed in the morning. We are still obligated as a society to judge people as if they make their own choices.

Virtue requires denying one's baser instincts—i.e., human nature—and doing what is right.