Quotes About Ethics

Todo depende de qué entendés por incorrecto".

Every time I've done something that doesn't feel right, it's ended up not being right.

Galileo was hailed as a Columbus of the heavens. The Scottish librarian Thomas Segeth raved: "Columbus gave man lands to conquer by bloodshed, Galileo new worlds harmful to none. Which is better?

The lawyer with the briefcase can steal more money than the man with the gun.

Behind every successful fortune there is a crime.

We are all honorable men here, we do not have to give each other assurances as if we were lawyers.

There are things that have to be done and you do them and you never talk about them. You don't try to justify them. They can't be justified. You just do them. Then you forget it.

Gossip is the story of our lives," she said.``It is the way a society works out how it is to behave. Our manners, our morals,our mores

There has to be something wrong with a system that means you can take guilt on and off like an overcoat.

Never, ever lie, unless it's to spare someone's feelings or to weasel out of something you really don't want to do, but only if not doing that something will not result in bodily or even psychic harm to another human being, unless that human being is exceptionally mean in which case minor psychic harm is permissible"—my

What right did she have to take photographs of strangers? But she knew these faces....These people had been made to feel inadequate, abnormal. Their lives were disfigured by circumstance.

very poor men are seldom bad. And that very bad men are seldom poor.

Innocence and guilt are legal concepts which have little relevance to the political world,

There are men of character in the U.S. Congress, both House and Senate. There are women of character, too. But the evidence for "character" needs to be something other than the iteration of the word itself.

The True measure of a person's success is to be a person of value.' I knew people of value, people who kept their promises, people who were kind, people who were loyal.

There's never honor where there's power.

You have to stand up for some things in this world.

Americans claimed to be following a higher law, even when this higher law only turned out to be a personal preference.

The real cause for Paul's rejection of the 'works of the law' lies beyond both self-understanding and ethics. As we shall see, faith for Paul is the correlate to Christ's cross and resurrection. It is obedience to the promise of God fulfilled in that event (see e.g. Rom. 4:13–25). One is justified not because of a mere inward disposition, but because of Christ in whom God has atoned for sin and effected a new creation.

He wants to think of himself as pious, honorable, churchgoing, civic-minded. The bent-down Mexican can drive the farmer to madness, to drink, to whoring, to collecting Ferraris, to the roulette table to gamble it all away. That's why the labor contractor came into existence. It's not as if the farmer can't

When you are tempted to compromise your integrity, remember than an opportunity isn't an opportunity if you have to compromise your integrity.

The Talmud teaches that there are four kinds of people in the world. The first person says, What's yours is mine. The second person says, What's yours is yours. The third person says, What's mine is mine. And the fourth person says, What's mine is yours. Which one are you?

Goodness is not the absence of badness. You can do nothing wrong and still do nothing right.

It's not my name that's at stake.