Quotes About Ethics

Two days after slapping Kuhl, he writes a memo to each of his commanders, ordering them not to allow men suffering from combat fatigue to receive medical care. "Such men are cowards and bring disgrace to their comrades," he writes, "whom they heartlessly leave to endure the danger of battle while they themselves use the hospital as a means of escape. You will see that such cases are not sent to the hospital." On

It seems very unfortunate that in order to secure political preference, people are made vice presidents who were intended neither for the party nor by the Lord to be presidents," he writes in his journal before turning out the lights well past midnight.

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either live happily ever after—or murder the president of the United States.

of character for John Kennedy, a man

The measure of a decent human being is how he or she treats the defenseless.

All great philosophers, even the atheists, realized that one of the essential attributes of a civilized people is a belief that good will be rewarded and evil will be punished. In

But only a fool defines "right" ends achieved by "wrong" ways as success.

That's my business." "Not if it involves breaking the law. Not if you don't want me to cloud up and rain all over you.

What I don't know is the other thing. Why don't people commit murders? Why are there so few? What is there about killers that makes them…I don't know…free from whatever hampers all the rest of us?

Integrity, resourcefulness, and agility

Dad, how do soldiers killing each other solve the world's problems?

Real professionals aren't compliant; real professionals are committed.

As a rule lawyers tend to want to do whatever they can to win.

If you look at your class as anything less than life or death, you do not deserve to be a teacher. If you walk into the classroom ten minutes late, week after week, you need to resign. You wouldn't come in late on your job all the time, but I venture to guess that some of you do it on Sunday.

Character is power."1 Booker T. Washington

I dropped the script in the fireplace, called my agent and said, they can jail me, sue me, but I'm never acting again, unless I can do something worthwhile.

I will not support any game that doesn't express what I think is worthwhile.

With fame comes the responsibility of what you say. If the country is watching you, there ought to be substance, something worthwhile to speak about.

Some of the best things about being a vegetarian include, of course, contributing towards the welfare of animals. Being a vegetarian can also make you a healthier person, and it helps the environment. All of these things make vegetarianism worthwhile. It's really a win-win situation.

You get a lot of apps and companies that are trying to sell you on something that's totally useless or potentially unhealthy. Only occasionally does something really worthwhile really come out.

Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.

It is up to us to live up to the legacy that was left for us, and to leave a legacy that is worthy of our children and of future generations.

Well, there is an attorney-client privilege here that needs to be respected, and it's a privilege that has been found to be worthy of protection by our courts.