Quotes About Ethics

Trustworthiness is an innate virtue and you can't buy it with any price nor enforces or impose it. It has to come from within and earned.

He that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious; and he that becomes suspicious will quickly become corrupt.

One thing I learned in life, is u keep people's secrets with you not spread them around like the mother fu..ing plague...

Be loyal and trustworthy. Do not befriend anyone who is lower than yourself in this regard. When making a mistake, do not be afraid to correct it.

The generals responsible for the death of most soldiers insist upon their being well fed.

that sense of relief which one has in reading Kant when, after the most rigorous demonstration of determinism, one finds that above the world of necessity there is the world of freedom.

We consider it innocent to desire, and heinous that the other person should do so.

It was not that Madame Santeuil's moral values had altered, but only her view of the moral values of others.

it appears that vice is far more common than one has been led to believe.

At that moment I would have undertaken a mission to make Robert break with his mistress as readily as I had been to make him go and live with her permanently a few hours earlier. In the one case, Saint-Loup would have regarded me as a false friend; in the other, his family would have called me his evil genius. Yet, in that interval of a few hours, I was the same man.

No hay nadie, por muy virtuoso que sea, que por causa de la complejidad de las circunstancias, no pueda llegar algún día a vivir en familiaridad con el vicio que más rigurosamente condena.

The kind of plagiarism which it is most difficult for any human individual to avoid (and even for whole nations, who persist in reproducing their faults and aggravate them in so doing) is self-plagiarism.

?nsan mutsuz oldu?u andan itibaren ahlakç? olur.

When we are nice to others, we generally lose all claim to their respect.

And, till we came to Doncières, M. de Charlus, without any fear of shocking his audience, would speak sometimes in the plainest terms of morals which, he declared, for his own part he did not consider either good or evil. He did this from cunning, to shew his breadth of mind, convinced as he was that his own morals aroused no suspicion in the minds of the faithful.

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

No wonder big pharma will do almost anything to protect exclusive marketing rights, despite the fact that doing so flies in the face of all its rhetoric about the free market.

As an example, companies would require researchers to compare a new drug with a placebo (sugar pill) instead of with an older drug.

When I walk into court, I'm not concerned about justice, the rule of law, or making sure it's a fair fight. Fuck fair. I'm there to protect my client. That's where my duty begins and ends. But

Counsel's sarcasm is inappropriate.

It's the Law of Douche Bags. Douche bags walk away with enough holes in them to look like a colander, while good guys go down for the count with one random punch to the head.

paying any unnecessary

Here people was once used to be honourable: now they are all bad; they have kept one goodness: that they are greatest boozers.

We are special because we've been united not by a common race or ethnicity. We're bound together by common values. That family is the most important institution in society. That almighty God is the source of all we have.