Quotes About Ethics

Money corrupts so, best give it to the already corrupted.

The point, one begins to see, was not merely to survive; it was to come through intact, true to one's most decent self — in short, to survive as English gentlemen.

Poor trustful creatures! If I could have done it then, I would gladly have killed them rather than picture them starving on that floe out on the Ross Sea, or eaten by the exultant Killers that cruised around.

I would like it to be a legal requirement for all businesses to be linked to a charity.

Live together like brothers and do business like strangers.

Riches disclose in a man?s character the bad qualities formerly concealed in his poverty.

Indians mock their corrupt politicians relentlessly, but they regard their honest politicians with silent suspicion. The first thing they do when they hear of a supposedly 'clean' politician is to grin. It is a cliche that honest politicians in India tend to have dishonest sons, who collect money from people seeking an audience with Dad.

Men are more accountable for their motives, than for anything else; and primarily, morality consists in the motives, that is in the affections.

Between atheism and superstition, there is this great difference; the latter may authorize some crimes, the former opens the flood-gates to all.

It is understandable that honest men should be dead or in prison in a Republic where the President is a criminal and a thief.

Man provides his own goods and his own evils, neither God nor the Devil has anything to do with it.

Man hovers between Paradise and the Pit," Gordinus told her cheerfully. "Sometimes rising to one, sometimes swooping to the other. To ignore his capacity for evil is as obtuse as blinding oneself to the heights to which he can soar.

Making money and doing good in the world are not mutually exclusive.

That's all it takes, one person crying out in the ethical wilderness, one person and then one more and then another, that's all that's needed to keep the spark of justice alive

Si amas y respetas el mundo que te rodea, no lo maltratas. Cuanta más empatía y simpatía tengas por tu entorno, mejor lo tratarás. Esto está inscrito en la Norma de Oro básica presente en muchas religiones. Es una reciprocidad ética: si tratas con cortesía a los que te rodean, ellos harán lo mismo contigo. Lo que das al mundo, incluyendo los pensamientos, los actos y la energía, regresa a ti.

If you love and respect the world around you, you will not abuse it. The more empathy and sympathy you have for your surroundings, the better you will treat them. This is tied in to the basic Golden Rule found in several religions. It's ethical reciprocity: if you treat those around you with courtesy, they will extend the same to you. What you put out into the world returns to you, and that goes for thoughts, acts, and energy.

spirituality does not necessarily equate to religion.

Is it a sin to hold something more important than your life? Should I be condemned for that?

What makes a scientist a "Mad Scientist"? A lack of desire to publish, mainly.

Times change. The vices of your age are stylish today.

An insult directed at the wicked is not to be censured; on the contrary, the honest man, if he has sense, can only applaud.

Wise men, though all laws were abolished, would lead the same lives.

There's nothing worse in the world than shameless woman—save some other woman.

Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.