Quotes About Ethics

Honor lies in honest toil.

I have tried so hard to do right.

It is no credit to me to do right. I am never under any temptation to do wrong!

Mature human do not denigrate (defame) or cherist (praise) an idea in order to feed personal worthwhile.

Would you ever buy chocolate with DDT? How about Cheerios with arsenic? Not very likely!

Moral growth corresponds with people's ability to see the world from an ever-increasing number of perspectives and act accordingly.

úgy áll ugyanis a dolog, hogy az er?vel való visszaélés nemcsak a szerencsétlen áldozatot tölti el félelemmel, hanem még inkább azt is, aki a visszaélést elköveti.

He who wishes to preserve, often destroys, so that virtue seems vice, and vice seems virtue.

La vie nous met parfois dans des situations dont nous ne pouvons nous extraire qu'en renonçant aux valeurs que nous défendons...

Ako stvarno misliš da pisci imaju moralne vrednosti koje daju svojim likovima, onda si stvarno naivan. ?ak i pomslo glup.

Život nas ponekad stavlja u situacije iz kojih ne možemo iza?i a da ne pogazimo vrednosti koje branimo.

ako pogazimo sopstvene vrednosti, pogazili smo sve.

In life there are three elements: mission, vision and values,' adds the prestigious Argentinian sports psychologist Liliana Grabín.

Dentro de nosotros habitaba un pequeño Goebbels que nos dictaba la forma más apropiada de reelaborar la verdad para mantener incólume tu aureola de prohombre. Éramos tus publirrelacionistas.

The world changes, or doesn't. You fight for the right things and be glad you did.

But what is intelligence? Is intelligence calculations and computations? Or must true intelligence contain a moral component? Each passing minute, I believe more that this is the case.

Sometimes even the healers are turned into butchers by the darkness of this world.

The doctor's code is, 'First - do no harm.' The politician's code is, 'First - go on television.

Man should be better than monsters. Ah, but who are the monsters?

Whatever their other contributions to our society, lawyers could be an important source of protein.

Dharma is easiest to spot by its absence: the Mahabharata employs the pedagogical technique of teaching about dharma via its opposite, adharma

One should never do to another what one regards as injurious to oneself. This, in brief, is the law of dharma. —Mahabharata XVIII.113.8

When ordinary human beings err, it is sad, but when leaders do, it haunts us for generations.

a man who wishes to profess goodness at all times will come to ruin among so many who are not so good. Hence it is necessary for a prince who wishes to maintain his position to learn how not to be good, and to use this knowledge . . . according to necessity.'25