Quotes About Ethics

it's quite possible to turn honor into money, almost impossible to convert money into honor.76

If history shows anything, it is that there's no better way to justify relations founded on violence, to make such relations seem moral, than by reframing them in the language of debt—above all, because it immediately makes it seem that it's the victim who's doing something wrong.

As it turns out, we don't "all" have to pay our debts. Only some of us do.

A legacy of true value is a legacy made of more than money. It's a legacy conceived in wisdom, nurtured by principle, and sustained by character.

They will care about our business only to the extent that we care about their overall welfare.

Stewarship responsibility.

Talvolta è più offensivo essere apprezzati per i motivi sbagliati che essere disprezzati per quelli giusti.

The good guys fight for freedom, justice and most words that don't put food on the table. The bad fight to scrub those words from our speech. Only problem is, both sides claim to be good.

Journalisms' once Holy Mantra of "who, what, where, when and, sometimes how," has been thoroughly eradicated by a ravenous creature of 24/7 photo-ops and sound bites.

In busy times there is also a temptation to let investments such as training take a back seat to getting the work out the door. Only adherence to the firm's principles and values prevents opportunistic behavior that may have short-term benefits but long-term adverse consequences.

The moral passages in Coffe Slocum's journals were not examples of static African "survivals," or of rote borrowing from Puritan and Quaker beliefs. They were something new in the world—another ethic that emerged when African and European traditions met in the mind of a very bright and able Akan-speaking freedman in eighteenth-century New England.

It was the strangest thing to me that Charlie Gaines was publishing all these Bible stories about love and kindness," said Klapper, "and he was the nastiest son of a bitch on the face of the earth.

The closer journalists came to great issues, the more vulnerable they felt.

The networks at their worst (were) at once greedy and timid.

The problem with police work, he once told Ray Jenkins, was that by its nature it tended to attract a certain percentage of sadistic people, who enjoyed the job because it legitimized their natural meanness. So, he added, the first thing any good police chief had to do was set the limits for his

If the norm of the society is corrupted, then objective journalism is corrupted too, for it must not challenge the norm. It must accept the norm.

Up to then there had been something of a gentleman's agreement among those who might be called The Good Journalists of Washington that the Kennedy Administration was one of excellence, that it was for good things and against bad things, and that when it did lesser things it was only in self-defense, and in order that it might do other good things.

Kansas, Lincoln responded, "I can not enter the ring on the money basis—first, because, in the main, it is wrong; and secondly, I have not, and can not get, the money.

It's so much easier to define crime than it is to put your finger on justice.

Honor is a contagion deep as fear

The corruption of the best things gives rise to the worst.

Beauty, whether moral or natural, is felt, more properly than perceived.

Be a philosopher, but amid all your philosophy be still a man.

It is, therefore, a just political maxim, that every man must be supposed a knave.