Quotes About Ethics

Thou shalt not become antifragile at the expense of others.

Everything in religious law comes down to the refinements, applications, and interpretations of the Golden Rule, "Don't do unto others what you don't want them to do to you." This we saw was the logic behind Hammurabi's rule.

La Ley de Rodas establece que si se tira mercancía para aligerar la carga del barco, lo que se ha perdido para beneficio de todos debe recuperarse mediante la contribución de todos.

Just as you should treat others in the way you'd like to be treated, you would like to share the responsibility for events without unfairness and inequity.

how professionals can cause harm for such a long time in the name of knowledge and get away with it.

And I will keep mentioning that I have no other definition of success than leading an honorable life.

A guilty conscience can be very troublesome, I've heard.

Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction.

The challenge for people today--and it is not and easy one--is to maintain high personal standards even while feeling that one is living in a moral sewer.

One of the great self-deceptions--and one of the great foolishnesses--is to tell yourself, Only I will know. Only you will know that you are a liar; only you will know you deal unethically with people who trust you; only you will know you have no intention of honoring your promise. Whose knowledge or judgment do you imagine is more important? It is precisely your own ego from which there is no escape.

Living consciously implies that my first loyalty is to truth, not to making myself right.

When we behave in ways that conflict with our judgment of what is appropriate, we lose face in our own eyes.

Praise in public and correct in private:

The policies that demean self-esteem are the policies that sooner or later cause a company to lose money—simply because, when you treat people badly and disrespectfully, you cannot possibly hope to get their best.

At best, the responsible student may learn a new concept of human relationships that rejects the propriety of practicing human sacrifice.

When our behavior is congruent with our professed values, when ideals and practice match, we have integrity.

Most of the issues of integrity we face are not big issues but small ones, yet the accumulated weight of our choices has an impact on our sense of self.

Where there is no power, there can be no responsibility, and where there is no responsibility, there can be no reasonable self-reproach. Regret, yes; guilt, no.

The higher the level of consciousness at which we operate, the more we live by explicit choice and the more naturally does integrity follow as a consequence.

If integrity is a source of self-esteem, then it is also, and never more so than today, an expression of self-esteem.

The fact that we live among other human beings should not obscure the intimately personal nature of our need for a code of ethics. Our self-esteem requires it, our happiness requires it, our life requires it.

Might and wrong combined, like iron magnetized, are endowed with irresistible attraction.

The wrong-doing of one generation lives into the successive ones.

evil is the nature of mankind.