Quotes About Ethics

It is your business when the wall next door catches fire.

To flee vice is the beginning of virtue, and to have got rid of folly is the beginning of wisdom.

Help a man against his will and you do the same as murder him.

Make money, money by fair means if you can, if not, but any means money.

The darkest hour in any man's life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without earning it.

Manners easily and rapidly mature into morals.

Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death one proceeds from genuine liberality and benevolence, the other from pride or fear.

Character is what God and the angels know of us; reputation is what men and women think of us.

It is well to think well: it is divine to act well.

Unfaithfulness in the keeping of an appointment is an act of clear dishonesty. You may as well borrow a person's money as his time.

Lawyers and tarts are the two oldest professions in the world. And we always aim to please.

Justice is rather the activity of truth, than a virtue in itself. Truth tells us what is due to others, and justice renders that due. Injustice is acting a lie.

S? nu d?m deci vina pe politicieni: r?ul începe cu noi, cei care distrugem natura, murd?rim str?zile, facem irespirabile blocurile, transform?m în haznale spa?iile publice ?i ne umilim cu sete ?i sadism semenii. R?ul începe de la scara blocului.

De ce accept?m s? coabit?m cu mîrlanii, cu guja?ii, cu escrocii, cu nesim?i?ii? De ce?!!! Democra?ie f?r? discriminare moral? e populism, adic? contrariul spiritului civil. (...) Canaliile, pro?tii, ignarii, scandalagii, inep?ii au devenit deodat?, cu to?ii, din vina noastr?, a civiliza?iilor, frecventabili. E aberant, e complet gre?it. Cu derbedeii nu te înso?e?ti, darmite s? te înh?itezi.

Pe cît de jalnic? ?i de nociv? a fost ?i este presta?ia moral? a jurnalismului din România, pe atît de steril? intelectual ?i nul? cognitiv este presta?ia puzderiei de poli?i?ti care, belfere?te, a monopolizat înv???mîntul superior cu ?tiin?a lor inutil?, producînd puzderie de Fachidioten – de speciali?ti incul?i, semidoc?i, limbu?i ?i, în cel mai bun caz, retori.

tr?im într-o ?ar? în care nu r?ul este umbra binelui, ci binele este umbra r?ului, o ?ar? în care, a?a cum spunea Ernest Bernea dup? ce a ie?it din lunga sa închisoare politic?, oamenii nu pot fi decît ori cîini b?tu?i, ori lichele.

Hypocrisy is oftenest clothed in the garb of religion.

It is but a step from companionship to slavery when one associates with vice.

Those who commit injustice bear the greatest burden.

Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood and nearly as blamable.

A single bad habit will mar an otherwise faultless character, as an ink-drop soileth the pure white page.

Maybe it's impossible for people to live their lives without hurting anyone.

There are no righteous societies; there are simply different degrees of depravity. To

People have said I'm the candidate of anger. Well, we have a right to be angry. We lost 3 million jobs. We lost our place as the moral leader of the world.