Quotes About Ethics

inequality without implicating God?

In the first place, a man who can work for five days, or even for five minutes, without any selfish motive whatever, without thinking of future, of heaven, of punishment, or anything of the kind, has in him the capacity to become a powerful moral giant.

It is better to be an outspoken atheist than a hypocrite.

A biographer is an artist under oath.

Una cuarta característica de todos los superjefes es la integridad. No utilizo la palabra en el sentido coloquial de "honestidad", sino más bien como la estricta adherencia a una visión básica o sentido de sí mismo.

It's odd that the people who worry whether certain plays are "morally offensive" so rarely worry about the moral offensiveness of war, poverty, bigotry.

But if "beauty" is in the eye of the beholder, so is "obscenity.

The world has always been betrayed by decent men with bad ideals.

The severest test of character is not so much the ability to keep a secret as it is, when the secret is finally out, to refrain from disclosing that you knew it all along.

Would you want to do business with a person who was 99% honest?

Contradictory to my religion, I think, is journalism.

What a pity it is that we have no amusements in England but vice and religion!

I respect a woman too much to marry her.

Man has responsibility, not power—Tuscarora

It takes 25 years or so for a male sperm whale to reach the edge of social maturity, when it attains the size and weight of those I saw being butchered. It took less than four hours to transform those once vibrant creatures into the basic ingredients of candle wax, lubricating oils, cosmetics, fertilizer, ivory trinkets, and food for domesticated animals.

But we cannot all be saints. Some of us have to be stewards.

A guilty conscience never feels secure.

It is easy to defend the innocent; but who is eloquent enough to defend the guilty?

Honesty, humility and hard work will lead to success in life.

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Money is to be respected one of the worst things you can do is handle another person's money without respect for how hard it was to earn.

People say, 'Why do you work sex crimes and kid crimes?' I don't enjoy it. But someone's got to do it. And someone's got to do it well.

The Chinese philosopher Mencius believed that man is innately good. He argued that anyone who saw a child falling into a well would immediately feel shock and alarm, and that this impulse, this universal capacity for commiseration, was proof positive that man is inherently good.

you can't be ruined by things that others do to you but only by what you do to others.