Quotes About Ethics

Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.

If you aren't sharing knowledge, you are no different from the guy who files false workers' compensation insurance claims.

Is there anything science should not try to explain? Science is knowledge and knowledge is power – power to do good or evil. Sometimes ignorance is bliss.

A bad system can destroy good people.

Bad leadership is an oxymoron.

If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, do not accept, as you may lose a friend.

Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.

"Who lends his money without usury and does not accept a bribe against the innocent. He who does these things will never be shaken."

"We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals."

"How we behave toward cats here below determines our status in heaven."

This is the substance of the way of the samurai: if by setting one's heart right every morning and evening, one is able to live as though his body were already dead, he gains freedom in the way. His whole life will be without blame, and he will succeed in his calling.

A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.

Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.

I do what I do because it is the right thing to do. I am a warrior, and it is the way of the warrior to fight superior odds.

We make every effort to see that our actions live up to our words and be vigilant with regards to our behavior.

Let me be clear - no one is above the law. Not a politician, not a priest, not a criminal, not a police officer. We are all accountable for our actions.

My Dear Son... remember that you are accountable to your Maker for all your words and actions.

In all our actions, God considers the intention: whether we act for Him or for some other motive.

I have learned this: it is not what one does that is wrong, but what one becomes as a consequence of it.

The individual is not accountable to society for his actions in so far as these concern the interests of no person but himself.

Glory ought to be the consequence, not the motive of our actions.

In the long-run, the best proof of a good character is good actions.

There is only one basic human right: the right to do as you please, without causing others harm. With it comes our only basic human duty: the duty to accept the consequences of our actions.

There are two principles of established acceptance in morals; first, that self-interest is the mainspring of all of our actions, and secondly, that utility is the test of their value.