Quotes About Ethics

Cohn had witnessed this for over a year—denial when needed or useful or more convenient. "He's a professional liar," Cohn told an associate.

Today's internet bloggers and television's talking heads don't have that [a partnership]. No safety net. No brakes. No one there to question, doubt or inspire. No editor. [Carl Bernstein's A reporter's assessment]

Ryan began, on his own, to research how to deal with someone who is amoral and transactional.

Cohn realized again what he had said before to others about the president: "He's a professional liar.

It's not what we did for the country," Cohn said. "It's what we saved him from doing.

The president has no moral compass," Mattis replied. The bluntness should have shocked Coats, but he'd arrived at his own hard truths about the most powerful man in the world. "True," Coats agreed. "To him, a lie is not a lie. It's just what he thinks. He doesn't know the difference between the truth and a lie.

Should I resign?" he asked Colin Powell, who had been the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from 1989 to 1993 under President George H. W. Bush. "Fuck no!" Powell said. "I told you never to take the job. You never should have taken the job. Trump's a fucking maniac.

It's not what we did for the country," Cohn said privately. "It's what we saved him from doing.

Mike, this is not right!" Trump said

It never ends," Graham said. "It's good versus evil. Good versus evil never ends. It's just like the Nazis. It's now radical Islam. It will be something else one day.

Men who take up arms against one another in public war do not cease on this account to be moral beings responsible to one another and to God.

He was fighting hard to draw a line where politics could stop, where family loyalty could stop and his own personal morality and his own life could begin. It was hard to find that place

Every age has its massive moral blind spots. We might not see them, but our children will.

A lie doesn't become truth, wrong doesn't become right, and evil doesn't become good, just because it's accepted by a majority.

Character, not circumstance, makes the person.

Booker T. Washington

My theory on literature is an author who does not indulge in trashiness-writes about people you could introduce into your own home...he did not care to read a book or go to a play about people he would not care to meet at his own dinner table. I believe we should live by certain standards and ideals...

basta fare domande per tenere la coscienza pulita, è un organo ben protetto e di agevole manutenzione.

reputation for integrity and honor is something you can take anywhere, and it will never let you down.

Stand with anybody that stands right. Stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.

As Lincoln himself said, "Stand with anybody that stands right. Stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.

Still, taking the good with the bad, chivalry, like Christianity, had a healthy effect upon Western man.

It is remarkable that chivalry, no matter how actual or merely aspirational it was in its own day, appeared when it did—that it appeared at all!

There have always been two senses of the word gentleman: the fine man of high birth and the fine man of good character.