Quotes About Ethics

Individuals who wear fake (counterfeit) branded sunglasses cheat more often across a number of different tasks.

The problem is that there are too many organizations where having a mission or values statement written down somewhere is confused with implementing those values.

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In everyday social relationships, people expect fair treatment and favors to be reciprocated.

like the BMW mechanic who handed Robert Sutton a survey and pleaded for a five on a five-point scale, because otherwise he would get in trouble).

career prospects of employees who report corporate malfeasance are so dismal that it is surprising that people whistleblow at all.

When we're self-employed, much of what has been typical of business, marketing, and sales has creeped us out. We want to do business in ways that feel good to us.

Toughened or coarsened by their worldly lives, the other dissenters could shrug and move on, but Souter couldn't. His whole life was being a judge.

To pass the buck to their constituents, as so many Republican senators did, was to shirk their constitutionally mandated duty. This

The Framers created impeachment precisely to thwart this kind of conduct, which was, in Hamilton's words, "the abuse or violation of some public trust.

At every turn, Mueller chose public service over private gain; Trump did the opposite.

So?" Weissmann asked the agent when Manafort was gone. "That man is evil," the agent said.

Trump finally had what he had wanted all along—an attorney general who put Trump's personal political well-being ahead of the national interest, the traditions of the Justice Department, and the rule of law.

Yovanovitch's testimony was an act of tremendous honor and importance.

A person who says "every person has a right to a decent education" may not actually mean "people should be robbed to support bad schools" or "all children should be forced into a prison-like building for 12 years.

When the state itself is held to the same moral standards as everyone else, it dies. And that's a wonderful thing.

Morals do not come from the state and society. Morality deals with weightier matters that measure our thoughts, words, and deeds against universals that are true regardless of time and place.

No one wants their stuff stolen. No one wants their physical person harmed. If you understand the implications of those two truths, you can come to see the egregious moral and practical problems of a state-managed society.

I principi morali non provengono dallo Stato e della società. La moralità riguarda questioni più serie che valutano i nostri pensieri, parole e azioni paragonandoli ai principi universali che sono validi a prescindere da tempo e luogo.

It depends on the situation. I mean, on one hand there's the argument that people should be left alone on the other hand, there's the argument to wade in a stop slaughters in places like Bosnia and Kosovo and what we probably should have done in Rwanda.

Once a villain, always a villain.

No one should cross the dark side.

It's so weird to live in this world. What a bizarre tension to care deeply about the refugee crisis in Syria and also about Gilmore Girls. It is so disorienting to fret over aged-out foster kids while saving money for a beach vacation. Is it even okay to have fun when there is so much suffering in our communities and churches and world? What does it say about us when we love things like sports, food, travel, and fashion in a world plagued with hunger and human trafficking?

Growing up means curbing appetites, shifting from "me" to "we," understanding private choices have social consequences and public outcomes.