Quotes About Ethics

And surely, surely, if we are not simply animals that live to fight, there must be a reason for bloodshed.

Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes reminded us, it is a 'less evil that some criminals should escape than that the government should play an ignoble part.

Managements can now view computer screens, capture computer keystrokes, identify websites frequented and track workers' whereabouts through GPS-enabled mobile phones, webcams and minuscule video cameras.

I know people that I respect and admire and look up to who have had extra-marital affairs.

La personalidad es algo muy misterioso. No puede valorarse a un hombre por lo que hace. Puede cumplir la ley y ser despreciable. Puede incumplir la ley y aun así ser un caballero. Puede ser malo sin haber hecho nunca nada malo. Puede cometer un pecado contra la sociedad y tomar conciencia, gracias a ese pecado, de su propia perfección...

Honi soit qui mal y pense' – 'Shame on him who thinks evil of this.' The phrase

May you have a lawsuit in which you know you are in the right

There is no religion higher than the truth.

Pero ¿quién decide si las leyes son justas? Nadie, cada quien. Millones de mexicanos se erigen todos los días en jueces de cuáles leyes deben o no obedecer.

Las leyes incumplibles, compendios éticos de sueños nacionales, tienen un efecto invisible profundamente corruptor sobre la cultura cívica

Gresham's law, extended: Bad manners drive out good manners.

a man killed committing a felony--and bombing and arson ought to qualify for that--is simply bought and paid for; his blood is on nobody's head but his own.

Advertising is legalized lying.

Satan delights equally in statistics and in quoting scripture....

Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.

A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own.

A time will come when a politician who has wilfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with mens lives should not stake their own.

Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking

Let people know what you stand for and what you won't stand for.

Open your arms to change, but don't let go of your values.

Remember that what's right isn't always popular, and what's popular isn't always right. 865

Don't work for recognition but do work worthy of recognition.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Time is a great legalizer, even in the field of morals.