Quotes About Ethics

I'm not saying there's no such thing as right or wrong. But I'm saying what may work for some doesn't work for others.

Two of our biggest delusions are that "loyalty" and "keeping promises" are admirable qualities. They are not. They are oft an excuse to do the wrong thing and to protect the wrong person because you are supposed to be "a man of your word" or have a bond with or allegiance to someone who deserves neither. Loyalty is too often used as a replacement for morality or ethics

He asks me about that, about how a man who could have done such evil could also be kind. I try to explain to him that human beings are more complex than we know, but of course, I don't really have an answer.

the machine masturbated and we had to take it or die.

Heaven is what you mix all the days of your life, but you call it dreams. You have one chance to buy your Heaven with all the intents and ethics of your life. That is why everyone considers Heaven such a lovely place. Because it is dreams, special dreams, in which you exist. What you have to do is live up to them.

when we lose our commitment to accuracy, honesty, and justice, we lose our ability to make a difference, because we also lose our vision of what is possible. Harlan

we are all inescapably responsible, not only for our own actions, but for our lack of action, the morality and ethic of our silences and our avoidances, the shared guilt of hypocrisy, voyeurism, and cowardice; what might be called the "spectator-sport social conscience.

And John Hersey in The Child Buyer; and Only Lovers Left Alive, flawed as it was;

In the end, I've done more good than evil. I've saved more than I've harmed. You are a sum of your life, not just one part. ~Myron Bolitar~

Reviewing bad books is bad for the character – WH Auden

If we read the Western Canon in order to form our social, political, or personal moral values, I firmly believe we will become monsters of selfishness and exploitation.

It's just what Wendell Phillips said," she declared. "' The Puritan's idea of hell is a place where everybody has to mind his own business.

No job is ever "beneath" you. In whatever you do, do it to the best of your abilities.

If you can't justify the rationale of an order to yourself, don't make your subordinates do it. Re-evaluate your reasons and find another method.

everyone deserves respect until they did something to lose it.

1) He must be competent, (2) he must exercise good judgment, and (3) he must have character.

Leaders at all levels must know their stuff, be dead honest, have unquestioned personal integrity, set the example, and treat their people "fair and square.

To him who knows to do good and does not do it, to him it is sin" ((NKJV)).

It will hurt if you justify your choices based on material rewards.

Religion in its fanatic state may be a passion devoid of morality that will take any means to an end.

I have observed that religion is not restraining in a moral see. Religion is not the same as ethics. Religion in its fanatic state may be a passion devoid of morality that will take any means to an end.

Religion is not the same as ethics. Religion in its fanatic state may be a passion devoid of morality that will take any means to an end.

Before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.

Every man's island, Jean Louise, every man's watchman, is his conscience. There is no such thing as a collective conscious.