Quotes About Ethics

The believers have four signs: good humor, tactfulness, kind heartedness and openhandedness.

Asking for outside help, or even if it comes unasked, to allow outside help, needs a certain gracefulness and humility. Otherwise, you cannot allow outside help. Lots of people cannot receive something gracefully. Always, the social ethics have taught you that giving is important, taking is not important. Yes, taking is not important, taking is ugly, but receiving is very important.

They are certain old qualities and flavors within you. However much you may try to pretend that you're a very nice and loving person, when deals are offered, suddenly old vasanas will take control of you. There's an urge to bite the deal.

If even for a moment, you experience everything around you as a part of yourself, after that do I have to teach you morality - 'Be good to this person, don't harm this person, don't kill this peron.' Anything that you know as 'myself', with that you are in harmony, with that there is no conflict, there is no problem. It is the other which is the problem.

A horseman of the old school, a gentleman who never forgot to dip down and stake you when he win. He was more ashamed to be stingy than to be broke, so as long as he had two dollars you had one . . .

If people want to get into leadership through corrupt practices, through corrupt means, I think that's detestable we have to take action.

Walker told Kristjánsson about the Mossfon data and Wintris Inc., the offshore company belonging to Sigmundur Gunnlaugsson, Iceland's prime minister, who had been elected on a platform of getting tough on the country's creditors and their offshore dealings. Icelanders were not aware that their prime minister was himself involved in the very activity he was castigating.

Everybody knew that men have no morals, that they do not know how to behave, that they do not know how to treat other people. It was why men like laws so much; it was why they had to invent such things-they need a guide. When they are not sure what to do, they consult this guide. If the guide gives them advice they don't like, they change the guide.

Considering that no man is an Island, and no man is above the Law. Then, breaking the law is a penalty all citizen should endure."

Better and ugly face than an ugly mind.

Sin so bewitches the soul that it makes the soul call evil good and good evil; bitter sweet and sweet bitter, light darkness and darkness light.

Just because I'm a murdering, thieving, cowardly, traitorous sort doesn't mean I can't do my job properly.

Begetting a child is at least as serious an act as murder...

I have betrayed no confidence and no trust. I simply wrote a letter in which I stated the truth--for the Government or anybody else.' 'A letter in which you accuse the Government...' 'Of course I accuse. If the Government uses falsehoods and the blind eye to conduct its affairs, then shouldn't I accuse? If I am betraying a trust to reveal it, then I am still right and you cannot make me wrong.

May we be strong by doing what is right

Weshecat-welo k'weshe-laweh-pah, let us be strong by doing right.

Good thoughts and actions can never produce bad results.

I remembered a definition of chivalry I'd heard once: a man protecting a woman against every man but himself.

You're only working with if you count the money at the end of the night. Otherwise you're working for.

To deny the freedom of the will is to make morality impossible.

Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow-creatures is amusing in itself.

Superior strength is found in the long run to lie with those who had right on their side.

Our human laws are more or less imperfect copies of the external laws as we see them.

The living standard by which a person uses to measure their mortal life is the one which will be used to reward them in their afterlife