Quotes About Ethics

Just as CEOs can't look away when social issues clash with their values, employees can't pretend that whatever its leadership decides to do is above their pay grade. If leadership won't act on a company's values, employees at every level need to hold them accountable.

The only way in which one can make endurable man's inhumanity to man, and man's destruction of his own environment, is to exemplify in your own lives man's humanity to man and man's reverence for the place in which he lives.

Anytime you are tempted to resort to violence, this is the bottom line: if you ain't ready to die for it or kill for it, don't do it.

Der Patriotismus ist noch nichts Negatives – und doch macht er mich oft mißtrauisch. Denn nur ein Schritt trennt ihn vom Nationalismus, und es ist wiederum bloß ein Schritt, der zwischen dem Nationalismus und dem Chauvinismus liegt. Mir gefällt Nietzsches Diktum, man solle Völker weder lieben noch hassen.

La maldad existe, pero es inmaterial. Un epifenómeno de la voluntad humana.

Cuanto más depravado se vuelve un pueblo, más se indigna públicamente contra la inmoralidad.

How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbour says or does or thinks, but only at what he does himself, to make it just and holy.

Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.

Don't go on discussing what a good person should be. Just be one.

A person's worth is measured by the worth of what he values.

Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.

Whoever does wrong, wrongs himself; whoever does injustice, does it to himself, making himself evil.

Live out your life in truth and justice, tolerant of those who are neither true nor just.

A wrongdoer is often a man who has left something undone, not always one who has done something.

When men are inhuman, take care not to feel towards them as they do towards other humans.

It is a ridiculous thing for a man not to fly from his own badness, which is indeed possible, but to fly from other men's badness, which is impossible.

Will any man despise me? Let him see to it. But I will see to it that I may not be found doing or saying anything that deserves to be despised.

The best revenge is not to do as they do.

Nothing is more scandalous than a man that is proud of his humility.

It is in your own power to maintain the beauty of your soul, or to be a decent human being.

Retire into thyself. The rational principle which rules has this nature, that it is content with itself when it does what is just, and so secures tranquility.

Whether you are shivering with cold or too hot, sleepy or wide awake, spoken well of or badly, dying, or doing anything else, do not let it interfere with doing what is right. For whatever causes us to die is also one of life's processes. Even for this, nothing is required of us than to accomplish well the task at hand.

That to expect bad people not to injure others is crazy. It's to ask the impossible. And to let them behave like that to other people but expect them to exempt you is arrogant--the act of a tyrant.

Death hangs over thee. While thou livest, while it is in thy power, be good.