Quotes About Ethics

Personal feelings don't make for good politics, legal decisions, or business deals.

While it shows the gods as no better than the rest of us, she said, at least, it shows them as no worse. See here the sources of human morality.

Only friends steal books.

Most people who daydream of transforming themselves into some vicious beast and going about tearing people's throats out, dismembering them, disfiguring them and perhaps devouring them tend mainly to dwell upon how much fun it would be and generally neglect the practicalities of the situation.

Really. It can't be as bad as all that," she said. "Bad? Good and evil are always mixed up. It provides order.

Black money is so much a part of our white economy, a tumour in the centre of the brain - try to remove it and you kill the patient.

How else do people find happiness except in fulfilling their duty? There can be no happiness without fairness, she said. Remember that, Om - don't let anyone tell you otherwise.

People sleeping on pavements gives industry a bad name. My friend was saying last week—he's the director of a multinational, mind you, not some small, two-paisa business—he was saying that at least two hundred million people are surplus to requirements, they should be eliminated.

There can be no happiness without fairness

But how firm to stand, how much to bend? Where was the line between compassion and foolishness, kindness and weakness? And that was from her position. From theirs, it might be a line between mercy and cruelty, consideration and callousness. She could draw it on this side, but they might see it on that side.

Kur dievas, tas prakeiktas kvailys? Negi jis neskiria, kas teisinga, o kas ne? Nesupranta papras?iausio balanso? Seniai b?t? išmestas iš darbo, jei vadovaut? korporacijai, turint omeny, kokiems dalykams leido atsitikti...

Justice is always ready to lend you a spare brain in order to condemn you without a second thought

Sweat is a sign. Of what? Of moral feeling.

What relation can I have with a system of power if I am neither its slave nor its accomplice nor its witness?

De peur d'avoir à naturaliser la morale, on moralise la Nature, on feint de confondre l'ordre politique et l'ordre naturel, et l'on conclut en décrétant immoral tout ce qui conteste les lois structurelles de la société que l'on est chargé de défendre.

Burr, "His manner was patronizing. . . . As he revealed himself to my moral sense, I saw he was destitute of any fixed principles.

Robert Troup said that Hamilton rejected fees if they were larger than he thought warranted and generally favored arbitration or amicable settlements in lieu of lawsuits.

Public infamy must restrain what the laws cannot.

Reared with Methodist modesty, he could never admit nakedly to the true depth of his ambition. In this way, he was strictly Hannah Grant's son, not Jesse's. Ethical and honorable, he wanted to receive jobs based squarely on his merits, a faith he held so unalterably he called it "one of my superstitions.

Mirabeau, the French revolutionary politician, once observed of Talleyrand that he "would sell his soul for money and he would be right, for he would be exchanging dung for gold."32 Napoleon expressed this sentiment more concisely, calling Talleyrand "a pile of shit in a silk stocking.

Every president "ought to be personally responsible for his behaviour in office.

The clandestine payoffs made by Standard Oil were a different matter, and Rockefeller never stinted in making payments to get the job done.

Dodd, do you often act for both sides in a case?

From the outset, Rockefeller had to wrestle with the demons of pride and greed.