Quotes About Ethics

The goal should be to build a sustainable lifestyle business that does good for employees and customers - and that steadily builds wealth.

There is no god, there is no god, there is no god at all. He who invented god is a fool. He who propagates god is a scoundrel. He who worships god is a barbarian.

Eskimo: "If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?" Priest: "No, not if you did not know." Eskimo: "Then why did you tell me?"

When you invite the whole world to your party, inevitably someone pees in the beer.

Why would anyone steal a shopping cart? It's like stealing a two-year-old.

The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.

Why does Sea World have a seafood restaurant? I'm halfway through my fish burger and I realize, Oh my God....I could be eating a slow learner.

It is better to be beautiful than to be good, but it is better to be good than to be ugly.

The age of chivalry has gone; the age of humanity has come.

Individual character involves honoring and embracing certain core ethical values; honesty, respect, responsibility . . . Parents must teach their children from the earliest age the difference between right and wrong. But we must all do our part.

I think we are trying to run the space age with horse and buggy moral and spiritual equipment. Technology you see has no morals; and with no moral restraints man will destroy himself ecologically, militarily, or in some other way. Only God can give a person moral restraints and spiritual strength.

No sex, age, or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty; but without it one vastly beneath the rank of man.

I have learned from an early age to abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look upon the murder of men.

But probably every age gets, within certain limits, the science it deserves.

The latest refinements of science are linked with the cruelties of the Stone Age.

Some say that the age of chivalry is past, that the spirit of romance is dead. The age of chivalry is never past, so long as there is a wrong left unredressed on earth.

Some people get so rich they lose all respect for humanity. That's how rich I want to be.

When you lie down with dogs, you get up with fleas.

My experience has taught me that a man who has no vices has damned few virtues.

I won't eat anything that has intelligent life, but I'd gladly eat a network executive or a politician.

The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made.

No amount of ability is of the slightest avail without honor.

Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.

Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.