Quotes About Ethics

We mustn't use the sorrow of another to reinforce our joy, even unintentionally.

I manage to feel guilty one way or another, no matter which purchasing priority wins the day. I've either spent too much, bought cheap processed junk, or I've subsidized the sweat shop industry. Even simplifying can be complicated. GAH!

The definition of screwing someone over is taking their money and doing a lousy job or destroying their water source or enslaving populations, things like that—your mother being disappointed or your father disapproving or your friends being outraged does not qualify as screwing someone over.

Practice coming from a place of integrity and you will be victorious. 2.

Sie sind verantwortlich für das, was Sie sagen und tun. Sie sind nicht dafür verantwortlich, ob sich die Leute darüber aufregen oder nicht.

Wenn Sie Ihr Allerbestes tun und ehrliche Motive haben, können Sie stolz auf sich sein.

his deeply ingrained belief that the rich should repay their debt to society. Throughout his life, Alfred Loomis would feel that moneymaking alone was not a satisfactory existence.

My past is no secret to anyone. I'm a blackguard and a sinner, and everyone knows it. These days, that's almost an asset to being a politician.

There are no right and wrong choices," Tain said trying to keep his voice gentle. "There is only what we do with the choices we make.

The count said in careful English, "That was perhaps not, as you English say, very sporting." "Games are played to win," Cameron said. "And we're Scottish.

You are mistaken. They do not snatch and grab as do the men of your race. With us, no man touches a woman in passion unless he is invited. It is a mark of a warrior that he has complete control of his desires." Elise stared at her in amazement,

Helen Sandland, an obstetrician in Wilmington, North Carolina, resigned in June 2005 after hospital administrators told her to increase her cesarean rate, which was a modest 10%.

Values aren't buses... They're not supposed to get you anywhere. They're supposed to define who you are.

One expects decent people to stand up for the good of all. Decent people shut their doors and hide behind them as decent people do. Massacres could never happen if it weren't for decent people.

Had you but seen it, I promise you, your high-minded principles would have melted like candle wax. Never would you have wished such beauty away.

Sometimes you have to do wrong to do right.

Good leaders know when to follow rules and when to break them.

One must always steer clear of men who sweat when it isn't warm.

Watch a child die for the lack of a few coins. Do that, and you might start to understand a few things, like the difference between a theft and a crime.

Humans are selfish creatures who can always be counted on to do the wrong thing.

Why not?" she exclaimed. Translation: If you can have sex with a drug offender, why can't I have sex with the salutatorian?

I'm saying you would not be comfortable with casual sex. Or whatever we're talking about here. The National Honor Society version of prostitution.

This is because I'm a good person," I assured Doofus. "I am going to heaven, though hopefully not by way of the convent.

Show me you have one iota of self-restraint." "I will," I said quickly. "Stay away from her." "Okay." "Keep your hands off her." "I'll try." He scowled at me. "I will," I said. He wiggled his fingers at me. "And it might help public relations with Lori's pop if you put on a shirt and quit walking around here like sex on a stick.