Quotes About Ethics

The person who talks most of his own virtue is often the least virtuous.

Whatever gods there be, there is something godlike in man, as there is also something of the devil in him.

There is only one thing that remains to us that cannot be taken away: to act with courage and dignity and to stick to the ideals that have given meaning to life; but that is not the politician's way.

Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles.

Benjamin Franklin wrote: "Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters."40

I wouldn't pretend to tell you we don't pay our lawyers well.

In my humdrum life, the daily battle hasn't been good vs. evil. It's hardly so epic. Most days, my real battle is doing good vs. doing nothing. -Deirdre Sullivan

The road to profitability is paved with credibility. Credibility is something you earn by how you market, where you market, how you treat people, how you act, and your overall level of professionalism. Away from the business arena, the term is street cred, and it's the road to respect.

If people speak ill of you, live so that no one will believe them. —Plato

One of these norms says that Christians must not talk negatively to other people about those who are not in the group. Instead, they are instructed to speak privately about their differences to these individuals themselves. Matthew 18:15-17 is quite clear on the point.33

The options given to them are the same options that one faces now. They reflect two distinct moralities, two antithetical religions, and two discrete manners of life. The one says: "I shall live according to feeling"; the other: "I shall live as God says.

The question never seems to be asked: is psychiatry a valid discipline?

If you were a murderer, rapist or felon, it was the room where you were interrogated.

los tres rasgos del liderazgo creíble señalados por Aristóteles: virtud, desinterés y sabiduría práctica.

La seducción es manipulación, la manipulación es la mitad de la argumentación y, por consiguiente, muchos de nosotros la rehuimos.

The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way it treats its animals." —MAHATMA GANDHI

Confucius said the doctrine of the mean was the highest virtue, and rare among men. The Buddhists call it the middle way. Aristotle saw moderation as the essence of virtue. I say moderation in all things, even moderation.

It takes a certain courage and a certain greatness to be truly base.

Nobody has a more sacred obligation to obey the law than those who make the law.

Saintliness is also a temptation.

What will my happiness be like? What kind of happy woman will Antigone grow into? What base things will she have to do, day after day, in order to snatch her own little scrap of happiness? Tell me – who will she have to lie to? Smile at? Sell herself to? Who will she have to avert her eyes from, and leave to die?

Just punishment, which observes restraints, is different from revenge, which knows no limits.

We must never lose the language of justice, for it reminds us of what is at stake and of the importance of keeping justice itself alive in how we fight.

Avoid lawsuits beyond all things they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property.