Quotes About Ethics

me inclino siempre del lado de quienes afrontan la tentación cayendo en ella.

It means telling the truth, keeping promises, and taking responsibility for your mistakes. It's the same in business as it is in everyday life. It's a matter of being what you claim to be, doing what you say you'll do.

The worst thing of all would be to disgrace himself. He was more afraid of that than of dying.

I believe that what I do becomes part of me,' she said. 'When I'm brave and strong, and care for children and the sick and the poor, I become a better person. And when I'm cruel, or cowardly, or tell lies, or get drunk, I turn into someone less worthy, and I can't respect myself. That's the divine retribution I believe in.

Arrogance was the vice of good leaders. - Prior Philip

en una guerra civil, la primera víctima era la justicia.

No se le había pasado por la cabeza que acusar a las agencias gubernamentales de actos ilegales era en sí un acto ilegal? ¿Imaginaba que estaba viviendo en una democracia liberal degenerada?

Cómo debo vivir?». La respuesta de Tolstói era: «Tú conoces en tu corazón lo que es recto».

We hanged him in front of Kingsbridge Cathedral. It is the usual place for executions. After all, if you can't kill a man in front of God's face you probably shouldn't kill him at all.

La moralidad de Tolstói. Hacer el bien tal vez no te haga feliz, pero hacer el mal seguro que te hará desgraciado. Ella

Intéressant, laissa tomber la mère. J'ai la forte impression que Philémon te sera utile dans l'avenir. Il est capable de tout, vois-tu. Il n'a pas de scrupules, aucune morale. Mon père avait un associé qui était toujours prêt à faire le sale travail : inventer des rumeurs, répandre des commérages venimeux, fomenter des différends. De tels hommes peuvent se révéler inestimables.

Children who had inherited money, or a warehouse full of cloth or corn, were sometimes adopted by unscrupulous neighbors greedy to get their hands on the legacy. The prospect of something for nothing brought out the worst in people..

If we have nuclear weapons, why can't we use them?

Never use your own money when you can spend someone else's. - Lev Peshkov

Every man who ever robbed or raped or murdered had a mother, and many had wives who loved them and children who needed them. But they killed other women's husbands, and sold other men's children into slavery, and took other people's life savings to spend in alehouses and brothels. They must be punished.

Better to suffer evil than stand by and do nothing.

and Wilson was looking for a pretext to unseat him. Gus was thrilled that a world leader would say it was not acceptable for men to achieve power through murder. Would there come a day when that principle was accepted by all nations? The

Même les gens les plus impitoyables ont parfois des scrupules.

Somehow—and Jasper could not figure out how this trick had been worked—people who challenged the president and caught him out cheating and lying were no longer heroes, as they had been in the seventies, but instead were considered disloyal and even anti-American.

Desfrânat?? întreb? ea, tare. Dar tu? C?lug?rii aceÈ™tia nu È™tiu c? e nevoie de doi oameni ca s? comiÈ›i preacurvie?

A la gente no le gustan los políticos que minan la moral de nuestros soldados cuestionando la guerra.

dislikes the work of governing, but I'm fascinated by it." Aldred put in: "Women sometimes do it well. King Alfred of England had a daughter called Ethelfled

That high-minded type can always find an excuse for breaking his own rules. I'd rather do business with an everyday sinner who thinks it's probably to his advantage, in the long run, to tell the truth and keep his promises.

Aye. But right and wrong don't count much in this world—only in the next.