Quotes About Ethics

People don't ever seem to realize that doing what's right is no guarantee against misfortune.

When the world has once begun to use us ill, it afterwards continues the same treatment with less scruple or ceremony, as men do to a whore.

Things have got to be wrong in order that they may be deplored.

Calamity is the test of integrity.

Handsome is that handsome does.

In a true tragedy, both parties must be right.

The beauty of the animal form is in exact proportion to the amount of moral and intellectual virtue expressed by it.

Borrowing is not much better than begging.

Combine common sense and the Golden Rule, and you will have very little bad luck.

Discretion is not the better part of biography.

Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.

Every man has his price.

The universe would not be rich enough to buy the vote of an honest man.

Am I my brother's keeper?

Business is religion, and religion is business. The man who does not make a business of his religion has a religious life of no force, and the man who does not make a religion of his business has a business life of no character.

There is hardly anything in the world that some man can't make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price only are this man's lawful prey.

Cheat me in the price but not in the goods.

To persevere in one's duty and to be silent is the best answer to calumny.

Commerce is greedy. Ideology is blood-thirsty.

Crime is a logical extension of the sort of behaviour that is often considered perfectly respectable in legitimate business.

Live together like brothers and do business like strangers.

There is only one social responsibility of business - to use its resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits without deception or fraud.

When you've got them by their wallets, their hearts and minds will follow.

Corporations cannot commit treason, nor be outlawed, nor excommunicated, for they have no souls.