Quotes About Ethics

It's a good thing when you don't dare do something if you don't think it's right. But it's not good when you think something's not right because you don't dare do it.

I've done many things that I thought I would never dare to do because they were sins. But I didn't realize then that the consequence of sin is that you have to trample on other people.

Virtue herself is her own fairest reward.

Meanwhile, the diocese had to raise $16 million. How would it do that? By borrowing $6 million and by pillaging its own parishes-- the very communities whose children had been violated by the disgraced priests. Parish bank accounts were vacuumed, parish properties were sold, parishes were merged.

Only from a capitalist viewpoint being productive is a moral virtue, if not a moral imperative. From the viewpoint of the working class, being productive simply means being exploited.

By definition, as a Prime Minister I cannot be a liar.

We must fight against tax evasion but also defend the rights of tax evaders, or companies that make mistakes.

There is a natural right that says that when the state asks you for a third of what you earned through back-breaking work, this seems to you a reasonable demand and you give in. If the state asks you for more, or much more, then it is a clear abuse against you and then you try to find evasive ways to make you feel coherent to your intimate sense of morality and it doesn't make you feel ethically guilty.

I'm a man of honour, a truthful person, a gentleman of absolute morality.

Parents who discipline their child by discussing the consequences of their actions produce children who have better moral development , compared to children whose parents use authoritarian methods and punishment.

Nigdy nie w?tp w cz?eka prawego i szlachetnego. Taki zawsze co? spieprzy. Oczywi?cie wszystko w imi? wi?kszego dobra.

Contemporary culture is not very good on responsibility.

The word 'philosophy' carries unfortunate connotations: impractical, unworldly, weird.

We think about what to do, and muster considerations and arguments in favor of one course or another. How are we to think about that?

People who have cut their teeth on philosophical problems of rationality, knowledge, perception, free will and other minds are well placed to think better about problems of evidence, decision making, responsibility and ethics that life throws up.

like any human practices, those of religions are not exempt from ethical questioning. Rituals and rites in groups change behavior, sometimes for the better, sometimes for the worse. For the madness of crowds is a very close cousin to the fervor or congregations and the martial spirit of armies.

So the middle-ground answer reminds us that reflection is continuous with practice, and our practice can go worse or better according to the value of our reflections.

Those who can make you believe absurdities,' said Voltaire, 'can make you commit atrocities.' By contrast, my caution cannot do any such thing.

An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought.

I've come across studies that show a fascinating tendency of white-collar workers to inflate their work hours.' This applied particularly to those employed in what she calls 'white-collar sweatshops', the traditionally punishing arenas of finance and tech.

A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction.' Even

For some of Europe's indebted clubs, match fixing is part of the business plan.

In the US, for instance, a former member of Congress will lobby Congress for whatever company or country will pay him; meanwhile in a poor country, a politician pockets an illegal bribe.

For instance, you need an ethics unit that can investigate wrongdoing and is not under the president's control—which would imply a big change from the Blatter-era FIFA.