Quotes About Ethics

Just remember this: power is neither good nor bad, but its user makes it so.

DO NOT HUNT OR TRESPASS ON ANOTHER CLAN'S TERRITORY.

has always been the natural leader of all the Clans," she pointed out. "For that reason, we have to hold ourselves to a higher standard.

We let it happen, we occasioned this horror. And we continue to occasion, it happens, we are still men.

What was up with class today? It was watered-down porn. He practically had you and Patch on top of your lab table, horizontal, minus your clothes, doing the Big Deed.

There is not on earth so base a knave as the man who wins the love of a woman when he knows that he cannot or ought not to requite it.

The call to religion is not a call to be better than your fellows, but to be better than yourself. Religion is relative to the individual.

A man has no more religion than he acts out in his life.

There are multitudes of persons whose idea of liberty is the right to do what they please, instead of the right of doing that which is lawful and best.

A law is valuable, not because it is a law, but because there is right in it.

It takes a man to make a devil.

Sin is sweet in the mouth and bitter in digestion. It lies hard on the stomach.

Many men carry their conscience like a drawn sword, cutting this way and that, in the world, but sheathe it, and keep it very soft and quiet, when it is turned within, thinking that a sword should not be allowed to cut its own scabbard.

A man that has lost moral sense is like a man in battle with both of his legs shot off: he has nothing to stand on.

Many people keep their old sins warm while they go to try on virtue and see if they like it.

Spirituality without morality is rootless.

There is but one resource for innocence among men or women, and that is an embargo upon all commerce of bad men.

There never was a liar that had not a spot in him where he could not help admiring truth.

Our moral faculties must be placed highest, else they can no more flourish than could a plant growing under the shade and drip of trees.

We must not forget that mankind depends largely on animals, therefore we have a responsibilty for their welfare. If we destroy them - we destroy ourselves.

Micro-finance is a wonderful opportunity for businesses. By investing a small portion of their income in micro-finance projects, they not only take an active part in business ethics, but they also gain future business partners and consumers.

I would not make the world wise at the expense of a virtue.

Not if he wanted to be able to look at himself in the mirror in the morning without seeing the word asshole written across his forehead.

Conflict resolution,' said Nightingale. 'Is this what they teach at Hendon these days?' 'Yes, sir,' I said. 'But don't worry, they also teach us how to beat people with phone books and the ten best ways to plant evidence.