Quotes About Ethics

Our ideals are our better selves.

A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.

Not faith but moral behavior is the essence of all religion.

If you steal from one book you are condemned as a plagiarist, but if you steal from ten books you are considered a scholar, and if you steal from thirty or forty books, a distinguished scholar.

Regardless of the outcome, the decisions linger. As one official put it, "Ethical questions will put scars on your soul that you can never get rid of.

Literature is one of the best allies of virtue and promoters of happiness.

So, now I know that not only will the German people stand for it, so will the Americans. It turns out we'll stand for any goddamn thing the government will do on our behalf, and if that includes a boot in the kidneys or taking everything a man has and throwing it on his front lawn for the neighbors to pick through, we're okay with that. We're better than they are, I hear, because we're not exterminating a whole people. Future generations will admire our restraint.

Cheating and covering up are natural by-products of a top-down culture that does not accept "no" or "it can't be done" for an answer. But combining this culture with a belief that a brilliant strategy formulated in the past will hold indefinitely into the future becomes a certain recipe for failure.

In framing silence as an unethical choice, Dalio is taking a more extreme stance than I have adopted. But it's worth reflecting on this idea, which to me implies that you owe your colleagues the expression of your opinion or ideas; in a sense, those ideas belong to the collective enterprise, and you therefore don't have the right to hoard them.

Treat people superbly and compensate them fairly.

The relationship between ethics and thrift can be summed up in one sentence. It is wrong to save money at the expense of others. Period.

So how do we sort it all out? The relationship between ethics and thrift can be summed up in just one sentence. It is wrong to save money at the expense of others. Period.

The people I've been exposed to have been people of amazing integrity.

You live in a dangerous place when you sacrifice integrity for security.

A lot of [Republicans] know what [Trump] did was wrong. And they didn't have the courage to say it.

You cannot take a person's humanity and then retain your own

This time, he fumbled for Collin's hand in the elevator. He still felt like a thief, there was no denying it, but sometimes thieves stole things because they needed them to live.

Whiskey to himself "God, please let this kid be legal, just to make that whole wood thing less disgusting

Because right now, leaning against Kenny's counter, he was fully, painfully erect, for maybe the first time in months. He backed away and tried to think about something else - anything else. Losing his job, his mother's cat, Denise - oh, there you go. Limp as a politician's moral code.

So are you," Burton murmured. "An avenging angel, full of justice. But that's not a bad thing.

Crick may have made a mess, sir, but he also made a promise. There's not a dishonorable bone in that boy's body.

Yes, sir." "Doing this?" The guy used his hat to gesture to the framed porch. "No, sir. Fucking for money.

There just had to be something morally wrong about telling a ten-year-old he had to have government approval for sexual activity.

Yes, well, you did not boycott the place that fed you, even if they stood against everything you stood for.