Quotes About Ethics

el problema es que a es calaña ya no les basta con mentir, además quieren disfrazar su mentira de virtud.

Y a veces (¡qué difícil reconocerlo!) nada está tan cerca del bien como el mal.

Because everybody has a conscience, whether or not we can be great beings is not determined merely by its presence in us . Instead, it is determined by the choice to acknowledge its presence and follow its lead

At the very moment when we refuse to follow our conscience and refuse to be truthful, we become all the more aware of the presence of conscience and the absolute truthfulness inside.

If you say one thing, and do something different, how can your conscience trust you? Self-trust comes from integrity.

Whenever you take on playing a villain, he has to cease to be a villain to you. If you judge this man by his time, he's doing very little wrong.

Vice? Virtue? It's best not to be too moral. You cheat yourself out of too much life. Aim above morality. As Confucius says, 'Don't simply be good. Make good things happen.

It's best not to be too moral. You cheat yourself out of too much life. Aim above morality.

Our treatment of animals, in every department, is deeply and systematically immoral. Becoming a vegetarian is only the most minimal ethical response to the magnitude of the evil.

Surround yourself with people who take their work seriously, but not themselves.

A sense of shame is not a bad moral compass.

If you take the pay, earn it. Always do your very best. Even when no one else is looking, you always are. Don't disappoint yourself.

All work is honorable. Always do your best, because someone is watching.

These experiences established a pattern for all the years and careers that came afterward. Always do your best, no matter how difficult the job, or how much you dislike it, your bosses, the work environment, or your fellow workers. As the old expression goes, if you take the king's coin, you give the king his due.

never permitted. Kester also taught me that a dated document became even more legal.

So instead of talking about theoretical ways of ending the war and violence, I say that we have to get rid of the individual asholes in each office and situation.

The worst crimes are not committed by evil degenerates, but by decent and intelligent people taking 'pragmatic' decisions.

Integrity has rewards that are more valuable than how many days we spend on earth.

Everyone's a pacifist between wars. It's like being a vegetarian between meals

Bush spoke of another principle, that a just war must "support a just cause." In the Persian Gulf, he said, "our cause could not be more noble." What nation has ever said its war was not noble?

If everyone looked the other way, then everybody was in on it. If he looked the other way, he was as implicated as the rest. That's how he saw it, how he'd always seen things.

People are good or half good or a quarter good, and it changes all the time- but even on the best day nobody's perfect.

In the practice of our politics we do not believe that the end always justifies the means.

A good deed does not erase a bad in my mind, yet neither does a bad dead erase a good.