Quotes About Ethics

If we steal thoughts from the moderns, it will be cried down as plagiarism; if from the ancients, it will be cried up as erudition.

Clean fighting solves everything. It ends all bad blood and any ill feelings people have. That's my thoughts.

Just because I don't do bad things doesn't mean I don't have bad thoughts.

Not only will you be held accountable for the things you do, but you will be held responsible for the very thoughts you think.

Even after they fired me, called me a bigot and publicly advised me to only share my thoughts with a psychiatrist, I did not call for defunding NPR. I am a journalist, and NPR is an important platform for journalism.

To rule a country of a thousand chariots, there must be reverent attention to business, and sincerity; economy in expenditure, and love for men; and the employment of the people at the proper seasons.

In a thousand pounds of law there is not an ounce of love.

For every dollar you give away, you'll get a hundred back. And for every buck you steal, you'll lose a thousand.

Not one man in a thousand has the strength of mind or the goodness of heart to be an atheist.

It is finer to bring one noble human being into the world and rear it well... than to kill ten thousand.

The most disappointing businesses, for me, are the ones where the people flat-out lie. I had one in Queens where I gave them a couple hundred thousand dollars and they started spending it on themselves.

Of a thousand people, someone's not a good guy.

Father Chantry-Pigg thought it would be wrong to go to Russia, because of condoning the government, which was persecuting Christians. But aunt Dot said if one started not condoning governments, one would have to give up travel altogether, and even remaining in Britain would be pretty difficult.

Experts say you should never hit your children in anger. When is a good time? When you're feeling festive?

were sickened. The punishment? The perpetrators were prosecuted in China and sentenced to death or life imprisonment.61

His appraisal of the state of the world was a bleak one: "No one speaks truthfully anymore," he writes. "Everything is deceit, lies, cunning, theft, sodomy, wickedness, with no fear of God or concern for the world. O miserable Christians, worse than beasts, where are you headed?

His students were intended to become a caste of capable citizens and inspired political leaders, men who were, as he hoped, "fit for the management of public and private business."36 Above all, he wished to create what he called the vir bonus dicendi peritus, the "good man skilled in speaking"37—someone who was both articulate and virtuous, and who used his oratorical powers for the good of his society.

If, simply by nodding, you would acquire great riches, but at the same time bring about the death of an unknown mandarin in distant China – would you nod?

There's a contradiction in your thinking," I said. "If I took your dirty money, you wouldn't be able to trust my honesty.

I wondered if we were doing him a favor. The Galton household had hot and cold running money piped in from an inexhaustible reservoir. But money was never free. Like any other commodity, it had to be paid for.

You'd steal the pennies off a dead man's eyes and sell his body for soap.

I'm a sharpshooter. I still don't like to kill a man. It's too damn easy to wipe one out and too damn hard to grow one.

You are joking. You must want money. You work for money, don't you?" "I want it very badly," I said. "But I can't take this money. It wouldn't belong to me, I would belong to it. It would expect me to do things, and I would have to do them. Sit on the lid of this mess of yours, the way Marfeld did, until dry rot sets in.

I'm sick of always doing the professional thing for prudential reasons.' I