Quotes About Ethics

Don't play politics, Hill. Super heroes need to stay above that stuff. We can't have Washington telling us who the super villains are.

Customers want good value, but they care more than ever how food and clothing products are made.

There is a responsibility on all companies to look at the quantum of pay and the relationship between the top and the bottom.

For decades, conservatives attacked liberals for living by "situational ethics," but the ease with which Republican leaders abandoned any pretense of being more than a whites-only party is the ultimate situational ethic.

To win a moral victory at the expense of your sanity is dumb.

I don't know what the world is coming to," she said sadly. "In my day select people—secret agents, hired guns, Girl Scouts who expected to sell their cookies without getting raped—were taught to kill with a single thumb." "Were you a Girl Scout?" Stone asked. "Of course. How do you think I know this stuff?

I'm sure that in Germany people also took an oath of secrecy. We know what that eventually led to. If it works that way with us, the sanctions for breaking the secrecy are nothing compared to the sanctions there could be if we're silent. All

You know, 'power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely?' It's the same with powerlessness. Absolute powerlessness corrupts absolutely. Einstein said everything had changed since the atom was split, except the way we think. We have to think anew.

I did what I thought was right. I'm not trying to win any popularity contest.

For loving-kindness to be real, for it to have moral value, he observed, it must be practiced with consideration "of the other's distress alone".

Our society routinely steals from the future.

To remain silent in the face of evil is itself a form of evil.

Whoever fights with monsters should see to it that he does not become one himself. And when you stare for a long time into an abyss, the abyss stares back into you.

Goodness means telling good lies, so that people won't get hurt by true words.

I even believe if you're killing a team, you shouldn't stop. You should respect your opponents enough to play 100 percent the whole time. And by the same token, if you're getting killed by the other team, you should never quit.

Nam si violandum est jus, regnandi gratia Violandum est: aliis rebus pietatem colas. Be just, unless a kingdom tempts to break the laws, For sovereign power alone can justify the cause.

Humata, Hukhta, Hvarshta," Mithan said. "It means good thoughts, good words, and good deeds.

Enough! I've known Alice for almost four years, and I would never use her for gain. Our friendship stands apart from family politics, business, and everything else.

Lawyers are the vilest creatures on earth—less than human

that the unfortunate thing about losing the trivia game was that they had been caught cheating and should have cheated better, I wondered if it was possible that they had never been taught that lying was a bad thing.

Appraise war in terms of the fundamental factors. The first of these factors is moral influence.

No one stays good in this world.

What's the good of one person clinging to his morals when everyone else is so corrupt? What's the good of that?

What's the point of God making us human if He doesn't want us to act like we're human?' 'To see if we can rise above our natures,'Megan said.