Quotes About Ethics

we have to behave as if everything we do matters. Because it might.

Citizens who refuse to obey anything but their own conscience can transform countries, it is the basis of any real democracy.

Because we tend to treat others as we have been treated, a trustworthy system leads to more trust, corruption leads to more corruption, violence to more violence.

In pre-Watergate, pre-sexual revolution times, such stories just weren't written.

Wherever selling other people's bodies is legal, demand soon outstrips the number of people who want to be prostituted, and trafficking results.

Take General Electric, for instance. Its happy ad jingle, "We Bring Good Things to Life," doesn't tell you that GE has been (1) a major maker of nuclear weapons parts

We can tell our values by looking at our checkbook stubs.

Exodus 21:22–23, a passage that says a man who causes a pregnant woman to miscarry must pay a fine but is not charged with murder, not unless the woman herself dies. Thus the Bible is making clear that a dependent life is not the same as an independent life.

Do it because it is right not because you believe it is.

Don 't let the insignificant positive side of wrong trap you. Even wrong has a positive aspect. Choose right with a significant positive side.

Don 't put mediocrity, insensitivity and tradition before sound reason and compassion.

Go with the truth, the right not what suits you. Because what suits you doesn't suit you if it's not right, the truth.

I aim not at getting honour but at contributing towards making society and its people worthy of honour.

Right fights while wrong rests.

The challenge of humanity is the choice of what works perfectly for them over what works fairly for them.

The people's inclination to falsity best defines the human problem.

The world is neither fair nor unfair, the question is whether you are fair to yourself.

Think as if you were punished for every deliberate wrong thought. You are.

What you stand for is what makes you stand out, not your standing. So, I never worry about my standing, only my stand.

Sonny Hey, whataya gonna do, nice college boy, eh Didn't want to get mixed up in the Family business, huh Now you wanna gun down a police captain. Why Because he slapped ya in the face a little bit Hah What do you think this is the Army, where you shoot 'em a mile away You've gotta get up close like this and bada-bing. you blow their brains all over your nice Ivy League suit.

Technology is not neutral.

Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.

Publishers are all cohorts of the devil; there must be a special hell for them somewhere.

Hay tantos medios de robarle las almas al diablo.