Quotes About Ethics

Ten to 20 years out, driving your car will be viewed as equivalently immoral as smoking cigarettes around other people is today.

Are time and patience still virtues?

But let me be clear: What Indiana ultimately showed me is that no one person is in charge of the moral compass of a business. The phone calls and messages from my employees proved that if the leadership won't act, they'll have to face the bayonets poking up from below. Gone are the days when companies can recruit and retain top talent without upholding a commitment to values.

Trust has to be your highest value in your company. And if it's not, something bad is going to happen.

Les méchants faits détruisent les belles théories.

We teach aspirational ethics. What I teach my students is, You're born heroic. I go into these animal studies, and heroism is actually in our nature. What you have to do is make sure that the system doesn't change you, that our educational system doesn't teach you to be willfully blind and to forget your aspirations, because that's the default position.

I have saved many young girls from marrying the wrong man and have kept others from going wrong," she announced. "My religion goes back to Jesus Christ. Houdini does not know I am a Christian." "Jesus was a Jew," Houdini shot back, "and he did not charge two dollars a visit.

I think journalists have the right to their opinions but I think their opinions should be based on history and what they see, not what they feel, how long they've been waiting or whether it's raining or it's snowing or whatever.

L'injustice et le mal se propagent dès que les gens de bien renoncent. La vraie laideur consiste à faire semblant, et à tolérer l'ignoble.

Ä°nsan bir kere yalan söylemeye baÅŸlad? m? nerede duraca??n? bilmez. (Le Voleur d'ombres)

For example instead of "Thou shall not kill," try "Thou shall not murder." There's a big difference between those two, and you had better learn it. If you believe in the not-kill part, you're fucked if you meet someone who doesn't. If you adhere to the not-murder view, however, you can, if necessary, kill someone.

Take what you will from that story, but remember the bottom line: if people don't want to know about something, don't tell them about it.

We're harsh judges on the bad behavior of others, but lawyers for our own.

We need the children of Indonesia and the Philippines to manufacture our freedom of choice.

It's easy to maintain your integrity when no one is offering to buy it out.

Æthelwold took it upon himself to tour them all, laying down the standards of behaviour he expected

I feel shame, not for the wrong things I have done, but for the right things that I have failed to do.

La moralité n'est bien souvent qu'une affaire d'éclairage et tu es le gardien de ton propre phare. [in Éléments pour une éthique]

One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.

En cuanto somos desdichados, nos volvemos morales.

We forgive the crimes of individuals, but not their participation in a collective crime.

I saw that what had appeared to me to be not worth twenty francs when it had been offered to me for twenty francs in the house of ill fame, where it was then for me simply a woman desirous of earning twenty francs, might be worth more than a million, more than one's family, more than all the most coveted positions in life if one had begun by imagining her to embody a strange creature, interesting to know, difficult to seize and to hold.

As soon as one is unhappy one becomes moral.

As profession recognizes profession, so, too, does vice.