Quotes About Ethics

Never do anything if it means you can't sleep at night.

Long-term success will never come if profit is the only aim.

For those who think business exists to make a profit, I suggest they think again. Business makes a profit to exist. Surely it must exist for some higher, nobler purpose than that' - Ray Anderson, founder of Interface Inc.

These values do not come cheap. These values must be paid for.

Watch out for dirty tricks. Complain loudly.

To smile at the jest which plants a thorn in another's breast is to become a principal in the mischief.

Be just before you're generous.

Conscience has no more to do with gallantry than it has with politics.

SURFACE. The license of invention some people take is monstrous indeed. MARIA. 'Tis so but in my opinion, those who report such things are equally culpable.

Lincoln had a stubborn concern for first principles.

Integrity is the essence of everything successful.

the naive forms of Christian moral motivation - bare threats of hell and the bribery of heaven - stunt moral growth by ensuring believers remain emotional children, never achieving the cognitive moral development of adults. Psychologists have established that mature adults are moral not because of bare threats and bribes (that stage of moral development typifies children, not adults), but because they care about the effects their behavior has on themselves and others.

We ought not to judge of men's merits by their qualifications, but by the use they make of them.

Ethics and Science need to shake hands.

He [Edward Snowden] has been careful with his info, doling it out to responsible news organizations — The Post, the New York Times, the Guardian, etc. — and not tossing it up in the air, WikiLeaks style, and echoing the silly mantra "Information wants to be free." (No. Information, like most of us, wants a home in the Hamptons.)" – Richard Cohen, Washington Post (10/22/2013)

Of all men, Christians should work especially hard, giving more than an honest day's work for a day's wage.

Rules, whether they govern sexual morality or financial probity, regardless of whether they are justifiable or undesirable, always provoke bold recalcitrants to devise clever, defiant ways to breach them.

The power of knowing the future could corrupt even the most noble heart. - Marcus Bennett

Whether you're heroic or heartless may depend on a contextual factor whose impact is far greater than we would tend to assume.

no word in the Hebrew language of that period for "religion." Religion was not a separate, identifiable category of beliefs and activities. It was an inseparable, pervasive part of life.

The sense that just about anything goes with the collection of public revenues and the making of public expenditure has contributed mightily to the current malaise.

The principle of acting in good faith is at the heart of decent work.

Some people want to be bank presidents. Other people want to rob banks.

You're only good if you can do bad and decide not to.