Quotes About Ethics

He'd also warn me that even if I was in a position of strength, whether at work or in relationships, I had to play fair. "Just because you're in the driver's seat," he'd say, "doesn't mean you have to run people over.

it make no sense to talk about rights without also talking about responsibilities

There is more than one way to measure profits and losses. On every level, institutions can and should have a heart.

If you lead your life the right way, the karma will take care of itself. The dreams will come to you.

you're only as good as your word," and there's no better way to say it.

People lie for lots of reasons, often because it seems like a way to get what they want with less effort. But like many short-term strategies, it's ineffective long-term. You run into people again later, and they remember you lied to them. And they tell lots of other people about it. That's what amazes me about lying.

but it makes no sense to talk about rights without also talking about responsibilities

Just because you're in the driver's seat," he'd say, "doesn't mean you have to run people over.

you're only as good as your word,

If I only had three words of advice, they would be, 'Tell the Truth.' If got three more words, I'd add, 'all the time.' People lie for lots of reasons, often because it seems like a way to get what they want with less effort. But like many short-term strategies, it's ineffective long-term. You run into people again later, and they remember you lied to them. And they tell lots of other people about it.

I had just two rules for their virtual reality worlds: No shooting violence and no pornography. I issued that decree mostly because those things have been done in computer games only about a zillion times, and I was looking for original thinking.

If you've been called to be a lawyer, don't stoop to be a king.

It took guts to ignore public opinion and do what you thought was right.

society whose moral ideals inhibit its own defense is a society doomed to destruction by those predators it defines as immoral.

Killing women and children at a bus stop or in a Nazi concentration camp—or at the federal building in Oklahoma City, for that matter—should be referred to as 'murder.' They aren't acts of war. They're acts of cowardice.

Work hard, pay your own way, and you'll never owe anyone anything but kindness.

A society whose moral ideas inhibit their own defense will always suffer defeat by the very predators they deem immoral.

In any conflict the boundaries of behavior are defined by the party that cares the least about morality

Shame on these civil services officers who study hard to crack the toughest exam of India, but then work like a spineless stooge to serve rogue politicians.

A person without character is just as body without soul.

The feeling of 'having done one's duty' makes everyone into their own honourable executioner.

We need to balance between two important values, freedom of expression, and social responsibility.

Occupation qua occupation is morally repugnant.

Violence is often the refuge of incompetent leaders seeking wrong shortcuts.