Quotes About Ethics

Though boys throw stones at frogs in sport, the frogs do not die in sport, but in earnest.

Our promise was to deliver value before profit, ...

I realized that a company can build a business, do good in society, and have fun. These three goals can run alongside one another, without being dominated by the bottom line.

You don't want another Enron? Here's the law: If you have a company, and it can't explain, in one sentence what it does ... it's illegal!

A politician's Job they say is very high, for he has choose who has to go out and die.

It is held, it is true, and very justly, by the principal of our ethical writers, that human laws are binding upon men's consciences. But if that were the only, or most forcible obligation, the good only would regard the laws, and the bad would set them at defiance.

The leader who exercises power with honor will work from the inside out, starting with himself.

We do, as a new Government, have to be extremely careful after 18 years in opposition. A lot of people who worked for us, they then go on and work for the lobby firms. I think we have to be very careful with people fluttering around the new Government, trying to make all sorts of claims of influence, that we are purer than pure, that people understand that we will not have any truck with anything that is improper in any shape or form at all.

The power of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special efforts, but by his ordinary doing

No soul of high estate can take pleasure in slander. It betrays a weakness.

To go beyond the bounds of moderation is to outrage humanity.

Experience makes us see an enormous difference between piety and goodness.

Noble deeds that are concealed are most esteemed.

The only shame is to have none

Man is neither angel nor beast; and the misfortune is that he who would act the angel acts the beast.

Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just.

True eloquence takes no heed of eloquence, true morality takes no heed of morality.

Men never do evil so thoroughly and cheerfully as when they do it for conscience sake.

The strength of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts.

Man's true nature being lost, everything becomes his nature as, his true good being lost, everything becomes his good.

Physical science will not console me for the ignorance of morality in the time of affliction.

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from a religious conviction.

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.

We don't have to have easy moralizing reactions to characters in literature.