Quotes About Ethics

whatever instances can be quoted of unpunished theft, or of a lie which somebody credited, justice must prevail, and it is the privilege of truth to make itself believed.

Pay every debt as if God wrote the bill.

Si la maldad y la vanidad usan el abrigo de la filantropía, ¿debería yo callar?

It has been said, that "common souls pay with what they do; nobler souls with that which they are.

Good men must not obey the laws too well.

If you put a chain around the neck of a slave, the other end fastens itself around your own.

I cannot consent to pay for a privilege where I have intrinsic right.

The antidote to this abuse of formal government, is, the influence of private character, the growth of the Individual.

Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this; the only right is what is after my constitution, the only wrong what is against it.

We call it the moral sentiment. As we are, so we do; and as we do, so it is done to us; we are the builders of our fortunes.

Nada es sagrado, excepto la integridad de nuestra alma.

Power is in nature the essential measure of right.

a handful of decisions that only the board can make: the decisions to select, retain, or dismiss the chief executive; to establish a climate of ethics and integrity; to set the goals and incentives for the executive team; and to pinpoint the company's central idea, risk appetite, and capital structure.

If a pickpocket meets a saint, he sees only his pockets." Then he'd get up and leave. Or he'd write, "If you wear shoeleather, the whole earth is covered with leather." These were his ways of teaching me about how motivation affects perception.

in the post-Gandhian war for power the first casualty is decency'.

Whatever a man does, good or evil, comes back to him someday. And he pays for everything.

To the baby who dies it makes no difference whether those who refused to protect her were proabortion or merely prochoice.

God created us to love people and use things, but materialists love things and use people.

What we should see in the real Beatitudes is not merely that the words of Jesus exalt good character instead of bad but that good character brings happiness and bad character brings misery.

The forbidden Book says when there's no authority "every man does what is right in his own eyes.

He that serves God for money will serve the devil for better wages.' 

Once it is acceptable to kill unborn children, no one who is weak or vulnerable can be safe. Is a handicapped person fully human? Is his life meaningful? How about the elderly? If those who cannot think do not deserve to live, what about those who think the wrong way?

Consider this true-to-life scenario. Two women become pregnant on the same day. Six months later Woman A has a premature baby, small but healthy. Woman B is still pregnant. One week later both women decide they don't want their babies anymore. Why should Woman B be allowed to kill her baby and Woman A not be allowed to kill hers?

When we comprehend how few wars have ever been fought for the sake of justice or the people; how personal spite, the ambition of military professionals, and the protection of capitalistic ventures are the real moving powers...then the mythology of war will no longer bring us to our knees.