Quotes About Ethics

Money has no smell", but smells the profiteers. ("L'argent n'a pas d'odeur", - Mais sent les profiteurs.) -

The cover letter is seen by our actions. (La lettre de motivation se voit par nos actions)"

If I knew something that would serve my country but would harm mankind, I would never reveal it; for I am a citizen of humanity first and by necessity, and a citizen of France second, and only by accident.

Men, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people.

The word of a gentleman is as good as his bond; and sometimes better.

Never… be mean in anything; never be false; never be cruel.

The first rule of business is: Do other men for they would do you.

"Do other men for they would do you." That's the true business precept.

Here's the rule for bargains: Do other men, for they would do you. That's the true business precept.

But you were always a good man of business, Jacob,' faltered Scrooge, who now began to apply this to himself. Business!' cried the Ghost, wringing its hands again. "Mankind was my business; charity, mercy, forbearance, and benevolence, were, all, my business. The deals of my trade were but a drop of water in the comprehensive ocean of my business!

If they would rather die, . . . they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population.

Man," said the Ghost, "if man you be in heart, not adamant, forbear that wicked cant until you have discovered What the surplus is, and Where it is. Will you decide what men shall live, what men shall die?

If you can't get to be uncommon through going straight, you'll never get to do it through going crooked. [...] live well and die happy.

There was a piece of ornamental water immediately below the parapet, on the other side, into which Mr. James Harthouse had a very strong inclination to pitch Mr. Thomas Gradgrind Junior.

unless we learn to do our duty to those whom we employ, they will never learn to do their duty to us

Shirking and sharking, in all their many varieties, have been sown broadcast by the ill-fated cause; and even those who have contemplated its history from the outermost circle of such evil, have been insensibly tempted into a loose way of letting bad things alone to take their own bad course, and a loose belief that if the world go wrong, it was, in some offhand manner, never meant to go right.

There are tales among us that you have sold yourself to the devil, and I know not what.' 'We all have, have we not?' returned the stranger, looking up. 'If we were fewer in number, perhaps he would give better wages.

there was a little too much of the best intentions going on

If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.

To do a great right, you may do a little wrong; and you may take any means which the end to be attained will justify.

Let no man turn aside, even so slightly, from the broad path of honor, on the plausible pretence that he is justified by the goodness of his end. All good ends can be worked out by good means. Those that cannot, are bad; and may be counted so at once, and left alone.

Evil communications corrupt good manners.

But Rosa soon made the discovery that Miss Twinkleton didn't read fairly. She cut the love-scenes, interpolated passages in praise of female celibacy, and was guilty of other glaring pious frauds.

If you knew what a conflict goes on in the business mind, when the business mind is divided between good-natured impulse and business appearances, you would be amused, Mr. Darnay.