Quotes About Ethics

Therefore the good man, although he is a slave, is free; but the bad man, even if he reigns, is a slave.

An unjust law is no law at all.

Charity is no substitute for justice withheld.

For if a thing is not diminished by being shared with others, it is not rightly owned if it is only owned and not shared.

In my dealings with these people, it has been my aim to be, in the first place, Just. In the second place, Firm. In the third place, Kind.

a bloke can have six cars and holidays in the south of France every year and it's still what's inside him what counts.

A Bear Scout... Is as honest as the day is long. Admire when he or she is wrong. Respects the creatures of creation. Views TV in moderation. Is never cruel, rude, or mean. Plays the game fair and clean. Does his best at school. Following the golden rule, always respects the rights of others, including even sisters' and brothers'.

Good" and "Bad" may be alien concepts to him, Ben.

He had a clear conscience. Never used it.

Even the voice of conscience undergoes mutation.

Für viele Waren gibt es jetzt Plastikverpackungen; das Menschenfleisch aber wird immer noch in Zeitungspapier verpackt verkauft.

Sumienie mia? czyste. Nieu?ywane.

Whether or not we believe in survival of consciousness after death, reincarnation, and karma, it has very serious implications for our behavior.

The beliefs concerning reincarnation have great ethical impact on human life and our relationship to the world.

Never lie when the truth is more profitable.

Is it progress if a cannibal uses a fork?

I am against using death as a punishment. I am also against using it as a reward.

Satirists, be careful. In the 1931 film by Rene Clair "Vive la Liberte" a song says, "Work is freedom." In 1940 the sign on the gates to Auschwitz said: "Arbeit macht frei.

La voz de la conciencia también pasa por un cambio de voz

Solve problems, don't create them. A huge number of very dislikable people have this aggravating habit of either creating problems they can then solve to the acclaim of the multitudes, or blowing up the size of issues and then handing them off to others. Try to not do that.

Lying for a good business reason has become so prevalent that they had to invent a new, less censorious word for it. They call it positioning, and people get paid good money to do it, lucky for me.

TRUTH #1: Work is suffering. The ability to boss other people around destroys much of human decency.

Throughout our time here on earth, we all have a choice. To do things the mediocre way . . . or Machiavelli's way.

It's damned hard to fire another human being face-to-face, which is why you sort of have to congratulate Ted Turner, who took it upon himself to fire his own son from the family business—over dinner.