Quotes About Ethics

Mana ada Jawa, dan bupati pula, bukan buaya darat?

Kau suka berbicara tentang keindahan. Dimana keindahan suatu kekejaman?

Hati bersih dan kemauan baik, dan kemampuan melaksanakannya, justru yang dicari para bandit. Hati bersih dan kemauan baik, dan kemampuan melaksanakannya belum mencukupi, Nyo, Nak. Belum, masih jauh. Dalam kenyataannya sampai sekarang ini apa kurang cukup banyak orang menggunakan Jesus untuk menindas? Waspadalah.

seorang tanpa prinsip adalah sehina-hina orang, manusia setengik-tengiknya,

Pada bangsa-bangsa yang telah maju, setiap perbuatan yang melanggar kemanusiaan dirasainya seakan melanggar dirinya sendiri, sekali pun perbuatan itu terjadi ribuan mil dari tempatnya dan di tengah-tengah bangsa lain. Apalagi bila terjadi di dalam tubuh bangsanya sendiri.

Dalam pencurian dan pembunuhan tidak pernah ada ampun.

An educated person must learn to act justly, beginning, first of all, with his thoughts, then later in his deeds. That is what it means to be educated.

People must be just and fair, starting with what they thought.

An educated person must learn to act justly, beginning, first of all, with his thoughts, then later in his deeds. This is what it means to be educated.

Significant officials at publicly traded companies are casually and cavalierly engaged in insider trading. Because insider trading has as one of its elements communication, it doesn't take rocket science to realize it's nice to have the communication on tape.

From coast to coast, the FBI and Securities and Exchange Commission have ensnared people not only at hedge funds, but at technology and pharmaceutical companies, consulting and law firms, government agencies, and even a major stock exchange.

My child, what does it matter, if you are in the right? Always follow the truth without caring about the result. Very often you may have to suffer injustice or unpleasant consequences for holding to the truth; but you must not, under any circumstances, abandon it.

The knife in the hand of a murderer kills, but if you give it to a doctor he will heal with it.

There are no easy answers, but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right.

THE POLITICIAN If it wasn't for graft, you'd get a very low type of people in politics. Men without ambition. Jellyfish! CATHERINE Especially since you can't rob the people anyway. THE POLITICIAN Sure...How was that? CATHERINE What you rob, you spend. And what you spend goes back to the people. So where's the robbery? I read that in one of my father's books. THE POLITICIAN That book should be in every home!

This is the story of two men who met in a banana republic. One of them never did anything dishonest in his life except for one crazy minute. The other never did anything honest in his life except for one crazy minute.

Ethical dilemmas have a way of sneaking up on a person. If something smells funny, stay away from it. Or help get rid of it.

Notice that "I" is at the center of the word "ethical." There is no "they." Achieving the ethics of excellence is our individual assignment.

You can't put someone else in charge of your morals. Ethics is a personal discipline.

But when we get enough people who don't care, and who don't accept personal responsibility for high ethical standards, our organization gets the "M" disease. Mediocrity. Anybody in the place can be a carrier. By the same token, every individual can carry the cure: the ethics of excellence.

Your ethical muscle grows stronger every time you choose right over wrong.

The ethics of excellence require a sense of perspective. Look at the big picture. If you live for the moment, do you mortgage the future? What happens if you put your reputation at risk . . . and lose the bet?

The ethics of excellence are grounded in action - what you actually do, rather than what you say you believe. Talk, as the saying goes, is cheap.

The only way we can develop muscle is through regular exercise. As soon as we stop stretching and working toward higher ethics, our standards start to sag. The muscle gets soft, and instead of excellence we have to settle for mediocrity. Maybe something even worse.