Quotes About Ethics

As philosophy professor Dale Miller asks, "if the business owner is willing to accept less responsibility for her decisions, then why should she expect as much freedom in making them?

There is no morality in war. Morality is the privilege of those judging from the distance. War is only death and destruction.

There are only two mortal sins in the world; one of these is to be cruel and the other is to possess , and they are both destructive of happiness.

Because the work that doctors do has moral urgency, doctors have a highly refined, professionally reinforced sense of right and wrong.

there is something unforgettably compelling about having actually been there, alone, at two in the morning, gloved, masked, and robed like a latex-covered priest, receiving into my hands a blue, bloody, and lifeless baby and having to decide.

Integrity is not a conditional word. It doesn't blow in the wind or change with the weather. It is your inner image of yourself, and if you look in there and see a man who won't cheat, then you know he never will.

Integrity is not a conditional word. It doesn't blow in the wind or change with the weather. It is your inner image of yourself, and if you look in there and see a man who won't cheat, then you know he never will. Integrity is not a search for the rewards of integrity. Maybe all you ever get for it is the largest kick in the ass the world can provide. It is not supposed to be a productive asset.

Every right implies a responsibility; Every opportunity, an obligation, Every possession, a duty.

A friendship founded on business is a good deal better than a business founded on friendship.

A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship

Next to doing the right thing, the most important thing is to let people know you are doing the right thing.

I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty.

A man has no right to occupy another man's time unnecessarily

I believe in the sacredness of a promise, that a man's word should be as good as his bond; that character — not wealth or power or position — is of supreme worth.

Society makes. Then society rewards and punishes her handiwork.

We can't go far in morality before realizing that right is a relative thing and that those who disagree with us may be striving for it as earnestly as we are ourselves. It is the spirit that counts.

Most sins ... are only perverted virtues.

A man who could make so vile a pun would not scruple to pick a pocket.

Absence of social blame is the usual mark of goodness for it shows that evil has been avoided. Blame is most readily averted by being so much like everybody else that one passes unnoticed. Conventional morality is a drab morality, in which the only fatal thing is to be conspicuous. If there be flavor left in it, then some natural traits have somehow escaped being subdued.

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Morals concern nothing less than the whole character, and the whole character is identical with the man in all his concrete make-up and manifestations. To possess virtue does not signify to have cultivated a few namable and exclusive traits; it means to be fully and adequately what one is capable of becoming through association with others in all the offices of life. The moral and the social quality of conduct are, in the last analysis, identical with each other.

The good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better.

You should live by, what you claim to believe in. And if you choose to deviate, you should be ashamed of either defying your own beliefs, or believing those beliefs.

Justice without love is brutality. Love without justice is banality.