Quotes About Ethics

I think when money starts to corrupt journalism, it undermines the journalism, and it undermines the credibility of the product, and you end up not succeeding.

You should never start a company with the goal of getting rich. Your goal should be making something you believe in and making a company that will last.

Lucky Cowboy and his clean hands. By chance you had a talent somebody wanted, and now you're able to afford principles. Good for you.

When all else fails fall back on the truth. No I'm a politician I can't tell the truth Mara Cal Omas

The Golden Rule is intolerable; if millions did to others whatever they wished others to do to them, few would be safe from molestation. The Golden Rule shows anything but moral genius, and the claim by which it is followed in the Sermon on the Mount -- 'this is the Law and the Prophets' -- makes little sense.

This is how it works now with the news: the story begins with a moral, then a narrative is fashioned to support it.

Neither does man have gills for living in a water environment yet it is not sinful to explore the depths of the oceans in search of food or other blessings.

There can be no higher law in journalism than to tell the truth and to shame the devil - remain detached from the great

A long life in journalism convinced me many presidents ago that there should be a large air space between a journalist and the head of a state.

Before you can begin to think about politics at all, you have to abandon the notion that there is a war between good men and bad men.

The night was a magnificent confirmation of "women and children first," yet somehow the loss rate was higher for Third Class children than First Class men.

It would be nice to say the rich people, the fancy people, all behaved like bastards and the poor slobs all came through like heroes. But as a matter of fact, sometimes the poor slobs behave like slobs and the great, noble, privileged characters come off very well, indeed.

That's the reward for your good deed,' I explained, 'a clear conscience. It really perks you up.

An author owes a duty to the truth.

Stealing from one author is plagiarism; from many authors, research.

There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written, that's all.

All histories do show, and wise politicians do hold it necessary that, for the well-governing of every Commonweal, it behoveth man to presuppose that all men are evil, and will declare themselves so to be when occasion is offered.

la ambición desmedida reivindica que "el fin justifica los medios" y obviamente, suele apartarse de la honestidad y el juego limpio. No hay que ganar a cualquier costo, no todo vale.

Con el amor pasional no basta. Se necesita un amor que además de murciélagos en el estómago, sea justo, ético y digno, porque el amor sentimental -per se- no conlleva estas virtudes.

El estereotipo social que muestra a la persona ética como un ser aburrido, aguafiestas o mojigato es absurdo y carece de todo fundamento.

La cólera ante la injusticia se llama indignación.

Si no es dañino para ti ni para otros, puedes hacer lo que quieras.»

La indignación puede definirse como un sentimiento de cólera ante la injusticia. Cuando sentimos una oleada de ácido clorhídrico en el estómago, cuando se nos va la voz o nos ponemos rojos de la rabia, cuando no podemos pegar el ojo pensando en lo que nos hicieron, cuando una fuerza interior desconocida nos impide olvidar, es probable, aunque no definitivo, que estemos frente a un derecho vital.

Estas personas tienen claro que el fin no justifica los medios y que no se debe ser esclavo de un sistema que te estruja para que sobresalgas del resto y acaricies la tan ansiada "perfección psicológica