Quotes About Ethics

If perception is limited to experience and knowledge, what proof do we have of moral judgement?

If perception is limited by experience, knowledge, and/or education, what deems my actions "correct" or my thoughts as moral?

If perception is limited by experience and knowledge, what deems my actions "correct" or my thoughts as moral?

You will never win an unfair competition since the reward is meaningless.

Then Henry speaks again. "Did he do it?"I turn to him slowly. "Does it matter?

Do what is right and what is good." -- Bryeison to Alasdair before going to his death on the battlefield.

If the married life possess love and virtue, these will be both its duty and reward

If no one has boundaries…how can there be any transgression?

Compassion is a lifetime business. You can't say something like, "I will have compassion on Monday, Thursdays and Fridays only. But for the rest, I will be cruel". That is hypocrisy.

I do not say that I could never be persuaded to sacrifice my reputation to passion- only that it would take a great deal.

Good night, and good luck.

Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Ill-luck is, in nine cases out of ten, the result of taking pleasure first and duty second, instead of duty first and pleasure second.

Being generous, just helping one's relatives and being blameless in one's actions; this is the best good luck.

Good luck is the willing handmaid of upright, energetic character, and conscientious observance of duty.

The right thing isn't always real obvious. Sometimes the right thing for one person is the wrong thing for someone else. So...good luck figuring that out.

To refrain from evil and from strong drink and to be always, steadfast in virtue; this is the good luck.

Si quiere perdurar, el futuro líder industrial debe considerarse a sí mismo como un oficial cuasi-público, cuyo deber es manejar su empresa de tal manera que no atente contra los intereses de ningún individuo o grupo de individuos. La explotación de los trabajadores es cosa del pasado. Esperamos que el hombre que aspira al liderazgo en el campo de los negocios, la industria y el trabajo recuerde esto.

When people first come into contact with crime, they abhor it. If they remain in contact with crime for a time, they become accustomed to it, and endure it. If they remain in contact with it long enough, they finally embrace it, and become influenced by it.

Nothing, however, can be SUCCESSFULLY SUBSTITUTED FOR PLEASING CONDUCT.

No profession, trade, or calling, is overcrowded in the upper story. Wherever you find the most honest and intelligent merchant or banker, or the best lawyer, the best doctor, the best clergyman, the best shoemaker, carpenter, or anything else, that man is most sought for, and has always enough to do.

A man's best recommendation is that which he gives himself . . . by rendering superior service in the right mental attitude.

If a man preach the Golden Rule as a sound rule of conduct his words will fall upon deaf ears if he does not practice that which he preaches. The most effective sermon that any man can preach on the soundness of the Golden Rule is that which he preaches, by suggestion, when he applies this rule in his relationships with his fellow men.

Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.