Quotes About Ethics

Measure a person by what they do with power.

Money and power are not your true rewards. Your name, your principles, your impeccable standards, your virtuous conduct, and remains an influence with others long after you are gone.

Only those who do not seek power are qualified to hold it.

Written words still have the amazing power to bring out the best and worst of human nature

Obviously, he needed to kill Bubba, but how? The man was a trained prison guard twice his size. The tax auditors had been easy. Mr. Ethics had slapped them to death with their own attaché cases. And even then, his neighbours had chipped in to help him hide the bodies. "A tax auditor, you say? No problem. Let me get my spade.

You know, kid, ethics isn't about choosing between right and wrong; it's about choosing between grey and grey. It's about choosing between two equally desirable but mutually exclusive courses of action. Freedom or security? Courage or comfort? Self-examination or blissful happiness? Column A or Column B?

I think money in general hurts all sports.

Live that you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip.

Live so that you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip.

Make crime pay. Become a lawyer.

People are getting smarter nowadays; they are letting lawyers, instead of their conscience, be their guide.

Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.

Lead your life so you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip.

It takes a lifetime to build a good reputation, but you can lose it in a minute.

What the country needs is dirtier fingernails and cleaner minds.

The income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has.

So live that you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip.

You give us long enough to argue over something and we will bring you in proofs to show that the Ten Commandments should never be ratified.

You need to learn to recognize these things right from the start. Evil almost always starts with small cruelties.

She thought you should be able to keep your private life private for any reason or for no reason. She even felt that way about politicians—so long as they weren't hypocrites—and worried that we'd never find enough good and interesting people to run for office if we pried into every corner of their past.

Eleanor Rathbone and the Politics of Conscience by Susan Pedersen,

Whenever people use a word so often that they abbreviate it, it is clearly central to their moral and emotional vocabulary.

There is something about veganism that is not easy, but the difficulty is not inherent in veganism, but in our culture.

How could it ever be to our purpose to rob another living being of his or her purpose?