Quotes About Ethics

Harvard—a place, I slowly came to understand, that could teach me many things, including how to think, but that could not teach me goodness. Not because it taught the opposite, but because moral education is simply not what secular Western education or secular Western culture is for.

Ten cuidado, quienes optan por cobrar ventaja en su propio interés mediante el engaño y la mentira se destruyen a menudo a sí mismos y pierden credibilidad ante los que les llevan en el corazón.

when the why we do what we do doesn't permeate in all that we do, our value systems give evidence that we do not have enough truth to successfully support what we do and who we are.

A well-wrapped statistic is better than Hitler's "big lie" it misleads, yet it cannot be pinned on you.

Whether they were naughty or not did not come within what Dr. Kinsey considered to be his province. So he ran up against something that has plagued many another observer: It is dangerous to mention any subject having high emotional content without hastily saying where you are for or agin

When Jesus is made a social revolutionary or a prophet of wisdom, the relationship of creature to Creator is basically reduced to an ethical call that Jesus is said to give people so that they respond to

No accountability to God comes to mean no accountability to anyone other than those to whom I choose to be accountable.

Supervisors who bully employees reveal their lack of competence in reasoning.

If your policy is win at all costs then you are going to hurt people

They have the ability to take a person's freedom from them. On certain situations, they have the ability to take a person's reputation. And under certain circumstances, they have the authority to take a person's life.

When a man's partner is killed he's supposed to do something about it. It doesn't make any difference what you thought of him. He was your partner and you're supposed to do something about it. Then it happens we were in the detective business. Well, when one of your organization gets killed it's bad business to let the killer get away with it. It's bad all around-bad for that one organization, bad for every detective everywhere. Sam Spade

two wrongs dont make a right

If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an infant's life, she will choose to save the infant's life without even considering if there are men on base.

The only way you can know where the line is, is if you cross it.

He always said his reputation is all of himself a man can leave behind when he goes back to the elements. Honesty and honor, he said, courage and grace. Those four are what make a man. That's what he taught me, sire.

Sober, for Gods' sake? Fight sober? Jotnar think that's unmanly. That's worse cheating than using far-sight!

Vous savez que l'amour et le vice sont le meilleur et le pire moteur de l'humanité – bien qu'ils soient souvent indissociables.

Do the right thing, deliver what you promised, and be consistent in the way you do it no matter what.

Carl von Clausewitz warned that "it is to no purpose, it is even against one's better interest, to turn away from the consideration of the affair because the horror of its elements excites repugnance.

Ernst Junger agreed that the defender had no moral right to surrender in these circumstances: "the defending force, after driving their bullets into the attacking one at five paces' distance, must take the consequences. A man cannot change his feelings again during the last rush with a veil of blood before his eyes. He does not want to take prisoners but to kill." During

A trainer should never declare his students to be dead

Create an environment in which your people want to train and be inoculated. Do not kill your warriors. Do not send losers off the training site. Do not talk trash about your students. Punish in private, praise in public.

when soldiers were left to their own devices, the vast majority of them, on all sides, could not kill.

Measure your wealth not by the things you have, but by the things for which you would not take money.