Quotes About Ethics

Golf may be played on Sunday, not being a game within the view of the law, but being a form of moral effort.

Newspapermen learn to call a murderer 'an alleged murderer' and the King of England 'the alleged King of England' to avoid libel suits.

No president would appoint a wealthy campaign donor to command an armored division or a warship—let alone serve as a regional combatant commander—but roughly a third of U.S. ambassadorial appointments are doled out to campaign contributors rather than to trained professional diplomats, with sometimes embarrassing results.

Trust is equal parts character and competence... You can look at any leadership failure, and it's always a failure of one or the other.

There are no moral shortcuts in the game of business—or life. There are, basically, three kinds of people: the unsuccessful, the temporarily successful, and those who become and remain successful. The difference is character.

we judge ourselves by our intentions and others by their behavior.

Low trust causes friction, whether it is caused by unethical

So the question remains: why should we regard majority rule as morally special? Why should a part of the people – even the larger part – decide for the whole?

Never mind that young Bill had a less-than-spotless past when it came to computer freebieism, had been chastised for manipulating accounts on a time-sharing system as an eighth grader and investigated by Harvard University for running up hour upon hour of academic computer time while developing that very same for-profit BASIC.

The capacity for evil is inherent in mankind, although some institutions promote it and others minimize it.

What is gamesmanship? Most difficult of questions to answer briefly. "The Art of Winning Games Without Actually Cheating"—that is my personal "working definition."

There is nothing more putting off to young university players than a slight suggestion that their etiquette or sportsmanship is in question.

It is wrong to ask for more than you give freely. In this way, we come to resemble what we hate.

Do not hurt where holding is enough; do not wound where hurting is enough; do not maim where wounding is enough; and kill not where maiming is enough; the greatest warrior is he who does not need to kill.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the great German Protestant theologian who died opposing Hitler's holocaust, believed that the test of the morality of a society is how it treats its children. We flunk Bonhoeffer's test every hour of every day in America as we let the violence of guns and the violence of poverty relentlessly stalk and sap countless child lives."6

And his valour was such that it was exceeded only by his virtue, which was exceeded only by his wisdom, which was itself exceeded only by his honesty.

Si queréis obtener justicia, también vosotros deberíais ser justos.

When iniquity sits in the judgement seat, good men must take their appeals to a higher court.

If thou wouldst seek justice, thyself must be just.

Today the eyes of all people are truly upon us—and our governments, in every branch, at every level, national, state and local, must be as a city upon a hill—constructed and inhabited by men aware of their great trust and their great responsibilities.

Karma, simply put, is an action for an action ... good or bad.

As for that Maxine Carr, she could have helped clear up the murders much quicker, but she chose not to grass her lover to the coppers, no one in the criminal world likes grasses, but this isn't any normal criminal case. Huntley isn't a criminal, he is a total fucking, monster beast who, if I had my way, I could hang him in Soham town hall for the families to see.

On this world you have the animals and they have as much right to be on this world as us; and it's man who is the reason they are pushed to extinction. They're killing them for their tusks and their horns, and these fucking idiots, they think claws will give them sex appeal and they get all fucking sissy on you.

The anti-hero has played an important role in the history of mankind, so much so that the whole ethos of what is good and bad has become blurred.