Quotes About Ethics

I think this society suffers so much from too much freedom, too many rights that allow people to be irresponsible.

To win you must change the way you approach day-to-day situations. You must have the courage to choose the harder right over the easier wrong.

We all lie like hell. It wears us out. It is the major source of all human stress. Lying kills people.

Integrity, wholeness, at-one-ness, is the opposite of moralism. Having integrity is the opposite of being moral. If one has integrity, one doesn't need morals. People with integrity operate with rules of thumb, not morals.

Dean Rusk never beat his wife. He was a decent man. He was a liberal. He was head of the Ford Foundation. And as Secretary of State during the Vietnam war, he killed over a hundred thousand people in a useless, wasteful, unnecessary, stupid war. We would all be better off if he had found a better way to express his anger. His time is passing with the turn of the century.

Galen went so far as to assert that no one could be a good doctor unless they were also a philosopher, and he prided himself, with justification, on his own philosophical ability.

It is the good who do not sleep.

A compleat gentleman is a man who tries to do what is right and honorable in any given situation. He seeks harmony with the laws of God, or nature, and of man.

The compleat gentleman is not a perfect man.

Chivalry is first and foremost the worldview of fighting men.

Societal civility is the extension and expansion of individual gallantry: it's all about—or ought to be about—balance and restraint

I've always been at war with myself, for right or wrong.

It was not something called "religion" distinguished from the rest of life, but rather all of life lived in a certain way.

That either-or mentality, that if you are doing something good for customers it must be bad for shareholders, is very amateurish," he said in our interview that summer.

Conscious Capitalism,

Look at the scales, numb nuts. In her left hand. Some people think the scales are supposed to represent both sides of the argument—prosecution and defense. Others claim it is about fairness or impartiality. But think about it. Scales are really about balance, right? Look, I'm an attorney—and I know my rep. I know people think I subvert the law or use loopholes or bully or take advantage. That's all true. But I stay within the system." "And

and four grandsons. "So I have studied all the 'ends justifying the means' type rationales. I did that here too, trying to defend my actions, but there is no way around the fact that my testimony sullied the trial. Worse, I sullied how I saw myself.

Win did not glance in Myron's direction. He looked out as though posing for a park statue. "I was just thinking," Win said. "What?" "If you clone yourself, and then have sex with yourself, is it incest or masturbation?" Win. "Good to see you're not wasting your time," Myron said. Win looked at him. "If we were still at Duke," he said, "we'd probably discuss the dilemma for hours.

It is always us against them. That's what all of life is. We fight wars for that reason. We make decisions every day to protect our own loved ones, even if it means hardships for others. You buy your boy a new pair of cleats for lacrosse. Maybe you could have used that money to save a starving child in Africa. But no, you let that child starve. Us against them. We all do this." "Tripp?

Loyalty is too often used as a replacement for morality or ethics

Thing is, you don't take too many stands in this life.

The good is fragile.

Right now, maybe it was best to keep this black and white and stay away from the moral relativism.

FRANK TREMONT AND MICKEY WALKER followed Stanton down the corridor. "Hester Crimstein is an amoral shark with scruples that would shame a street hooker," Walker said to him. "You