Quotes About Ethics

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation. Character is what you really are. Reputation is what people say you are.

The smallest good dead is better than the best intention

Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value. —ALBERT EINSTEIN

Well you may throw your rock and hide your hand Workin' in the dark against your fellow man But as sure as God made black and white What's down in the dark will be brought to the light

That he would pause In his killing To go about the business Of preparing for the living Knowing That he will immediately return To the business of killing?

trust that you now perceive the same act may wear as many different hues of right or wrong as the rainbow, according to the atmosphere in which it is done.

On the radio, I heard someone define ethics as "obedience to the unenforceable.

If I can't do anything useful, at least I would like to do as little harm as possible.

On the radio, I heard someone define ethics as "obedience to the unenforceable." Not bad. You do it for inner reasons, not because someone is keeping score, or because you might be punished if you break the rules and get caught. You are marching to the beat of your own drummer.

Wickedness is a wrong action.

The best that could be left behind by any man: children who had been brought up to behave responsibly and to believe in something beyond their own self gratification. (The Americans

Tomorrow's world can not exist without morals, without faith and memory. Cynicism, narrow interests and cowardice must not occupy our lives.

You do not have to be religious to be spiritual and moral.

This rule is so underrated: Keep your family and business completely separated.

Never exalt people because they're in your family; never exalt people because they're your color; never exalt people because they're your kinfolk. Exalt them because they're worthy.

Never refuse an assignment except when there is a conflict of interest, a potential of danger to you or your family, or you hold a strongly biased attitude about the subject under focus.

If we would mend the World, we should mend Ourselves; and teach our Children to be, not what we are, but what they should be.

No one would barbecue their family dog. Why is a cow or a pig or a chicken different?

Never put business before family.

It's very hard to make arguments about the effects of cloning on family relations if family relations are in tatters.

Catholic school graduates exhibit a wide variety of qualities that will not only help them in their careers but also in their family and community lives.

It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.

My background is that I came from a middle class family, and I think those values stay where ever you go.

I strongly believe in my own rights and wrongs and impose them on myself and my family.