Quotes About Ethics

Honestly, it's not the medals that I feel so proud of. It's the way I conducted myself as an athlete, the hard work that I put forward.

Too poor for a bribe, and too proud to importune, he had not the method of making a fortune.

That's one thing: When I left Notre Dame, when I left every school, what I'm the proudest of is we never compromised the rules, never were on probation, never had any major problems of any kind.

Letting the facts speak for themselves is an immoral principle when we all know that facts and figures can be selected to prove anything.

Doing business and doing good are not mutually exclusive, and it is our responsibility to prove this every day anew.

The Pentagon said that these prisoners were kept in accordance with the Geneva Convention, and of course I was not reassured by that, but I couldn't prove that that was wrong; so we're clearer about that.

The thing about rights is that in the end you can't prove what should be considered a right.

We don't want to put people in jail unless we prove that they knew they were doing something they shouldn't do.

Nothing is proved, all is permitted.

If I think something is right, I'll fight for it - always have. If it's wrong or I've been proved wrong, I'll walk away, and I'll apologise.

Why bad people - who are bad to other people - keep getting hired after they have proven their selves time and again is a mystery to me.

Unless we provide consequences for activities and actions that are wrong, we are not going to get any truth.

Our society does not give nearly enough credit to business leaders who create jobs, behave ethically and provide products and services that enhance our lives.

There is one thing alone that stands the brunt of life throughout its course; a quiet conscience.

To generous souls every task is noble.

We would have to think the gods had no minds, to pray for murderers.

What heavenly power lends an ear To a breaker of oaths, a deceiver?

black evil is outlined clearest to our eyes by the blaze of virtue

Again, again your mind has changed course with the wind. For you think now of godly things ignored when you worked dreadful deeds on your brother against his will.

O Zeus, why is it you have given men clear ways of testing whether gold is counterfeit but, when it comes to men, the body carries no stamp of nature for distinguishing bad from good.

Nurse: Yet he is found to be treacherous towards his friends. Tutor: And what man is not? dost thou only now know this, that every one lives himself dearer than his neighbour, some indeed with justice, but others even for the sake of gain.

For it is the part of a wise man to practice restrained good temper.

O Zeus! Why have you given us clear signs to tell True gold from counterfeit; but when we need to know Bad men from good, the flesh bears no revealing mark?

Gone is the trust to be placed in oaths; I cannot understand if the gods you swore by then no longer rule, or men live by new standards of what is right.