Quotes About Ethics

People who commit monstrous crimes are not necessarily monsters. If they were, things would be easy. But they aren't and it is one of the experiences of life.

The key is not to make the sale. The key is to cultivate the customer." At The Home Depot, cultivating the customer is much more important than creating a bottom line. We teach our associates that if you can save a customer money, do it. We're not looking to fleece the customer. If I can save them $100, why not do it? That reflects one of our values: caring for the customer. Care for them today and they'll be back tomorrow.

Our struggle is against a system where the top twenty-five hedge fund managers in the United States pocket more money than 350,000 kindergarten teachers combined. When did we the people make that determination? When did we decide that a drug company executive at Moderna can collect a "golden parachute" valued at $926 million for not working, while EMT workers who work around the clock to save lives make as little as $40,000 a year?

If a nation is morally judged by how we treat the weakest and most vulnerable among us, our health care system fails miserably.

The Bible, and virtually every major religion on earth, has a term for this practice. It's called "usury." In The Divine Comedy, Dante reserved a special place in the seventh circle of hell for people who charged usurious interest rates.

We are aware of conscience in the same way that a horse has a sense of its rider, or a helmsman on a ship takes his bearings from the stars. Alas! The horse has many different riders, and many different helmsmen look toward many stars. The question is who guides the rider and in which direction does a captain steer his ship.

Somebody recently figured out that we have 35 million laws to enforce the ten commandments.

Conscience is that still, small voice that is sometimes too loud for comfort.

The eleventh commandment --- Thou shalt not be found out --- is the only one that is virtually impossible to keep these days.

Every day, to earn my daily bread I go to the market where lies are bought Hopefully I take up my place among the sellers.

He who does not know the truth is Ignorant, he who knows and not speaks up is Criminal. Bertold Brecht

Right is its own defense.

No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.

What is robbing a bank compared with founding a bank?

You may proclaim, good sirs, your fine philosophy But till you feed us, right and wrong can wait!

Till you feed us, right and wrong can wait.

First the grub, then the morals.

Righteous people have no sense of humor.

There are times when you have to choose between being a human and having good taste.

A man who doesn't know the truth is just an idiot, but a man who knows the truth and calls it a lie is a crook.

Those who are against Fascism without being against capitalism, who lament over the barbarism that comes out of barbarism, are like people who wish to eat their veal without slaughtering the calf.

Grub first, then ethics.

Food comes first and then morality Bertolt brecht

Sin is what is new, strong, surprising, strange. The theatre must take an interest in sin if the young are to be able to go there.