Quotes About Ethics

Call me old-fashioned," Deepak said, "but I've always believed that hard work pays off. My version of the Beatitudes. Do the right thing, put up with unfairness, selfishness, stay true to yourself... one day it all works out. Of course, I don't know that people who wronged you suffer or get their just deserts. I don't think it works that way . But I do think that one day you get your reward.

Surely you couldn't be a good doctor and a terrible human being---surely the laws of man, if not God, didn't allow it.

Thou shall not operate on the day of a patient's death.

When you look around Addis and see children barefoot and shivering in the rain, when you see the lepers begging for their next morsel, does any of that Monophysitic nonsense matter the least bit?" Matron

A rich man's faults are covered with money, but a surgeon's faults are covered with earth.

Doing the wrong thing to do the right thing

The tide had turned, and the worst possible thing had happened: my heroes had become the "bad guys," and one didn't dare say otherwise.

his crime was to belong to the losing side, or perhaps even the wrong side. But all he'd done was follow orders...

This is the covenant of water: that they're all linked inescapably by their acts of commission and omission, and no one stands alone. She

Do not follow vain desires for verily he who prospers is preserved from lust, greed and anger.

If an ignorant person is attracted by the things of the world, that is bad. But if a learned person is thus attracted, it is worse.

When knowledge is limited - it leads to folly... When knowledge exceeds a certain limit, it leads to exploitation.

In the late 1850s, one Florida senator reported that US ships sailing to Angola could buy Africans for about $70 and then sell them in Cuba for almost $1,200.

When the friar answered that the good ones did, Hatuey at once answered that he preferred hell, "so as not to be where Spaniards were.

Everyone is out for himself. Not everyone will say so but everyone behaves so. And those that don't say so often behave in an even more grossly selfish way.

Updike quashed the voice of his conscience, while at the same time clinging to a "me-first Salvationism.

I don't think healthcare's a right. The only right you have is the ability to go out on an even playing field and work, and then purchase health insurance, or whatever it is.

Doing the right thing is often a lonely road

Leafing through Forbes or Fortune [magazine]s is like reading the operating manual of a strangely sanctimonious pirate ship

Meyer summarizes his code of honor as "(1) Show up, (2) Work hard. (3) Be kind. (4) Take the high road.

Many people who hold giver values in life choose matching as their primary reciprocity style at work, seeking an even balance of give and take.

Who you are should be a question of what you value, not what you believe.

En cuestiones de estilo, nade con la corriente", dicen que aconsejaba Thomas Jefferson, pero "en cuestiones de principios, sea sólido como una roca",

When we shift our emphasis from behavior to character, people evaluate choices differently. Instead of asking whether this behavior will achieve the results they want, they take action because it is the right thing to do. In the poignant words of one Holocaust rescuer, "It's like saving somebody who is drowning. You don't ask them what God they pray too. You just go and save them.