Ethics Quotes - Page 11

• Moralities, ethics, laws, customs, beliefs, doctrines - these are of trifling import. All that matters is that the miraculous become the norm.

  Henry Miller

  Law, Miracle, Doctrine

  "Black Spring". Book by Henry Miller, 1936.

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• The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught.

  H. L. Mencken

  Regret, Character, Men

  Prejudices, Fourth Series ch. 11 (1924)

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• Today we are engaged in a deadly global struggle for those who would intimidate, torture, and murder people for exercising the most basic freedoms. If we are to win this struggle and spread those freedoms, we must keep our own moral compass pointed in a true direction.

  Barack Obama

  Inspirational, Freedom, Integrity

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• There is no twilight zone of honesty in business. A thing is right or it's wrong. It's black or it's white.

  John Francis Dodge

  Honesty, Twilight, White

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• If falsehood, like truth, had but one face, we would be more on equal terms. For we would consider the contrary of what the liar said to be certain. But the opposite of truth has a hundred thousand faces and an infinite field.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Wisdom, Honesty, Liars

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• Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Trust, Forgiveness, Powerful

  1883-92 Also sprach Zarathustra ( Thus Spake Zarathustra) (translated by R J Hollingdale).

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• For somehow this is tyranny's disease, to trust no friends.

  Aeschylus

  Friendship, Trust, No Friends

  "Prometheus Bound". Play by Aeschylus,

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• Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. Absolve you to yourself, and you shall have the suffrage of the world.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Single, Truth, Integrity

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.11, Penguin

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• Some people can be reasoned into sense, and others must be shocked into it.

  Thomas Paine

  People, Morality, Shocked

  Thomas Paine (2016). “COMMON SENSE (Political Classics Series): Advocating Independence to People in the Thirteen Colonies - Addressed to the Inhabitants of America”, p.541, e-artnow

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• He who is not sure of his memory, should not undertake the trade of lying.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Honesty, Memories, Lying

  Attributed to "Essais" by Michel de Montaigne, Book I, Ch. 9, 1595.

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• There is a great deal of self-will in the world, but very little genuine independence of character.

  Frederick William Faber

  Integrity, Character, Self

  Frederick William Faber (1860). “Spiritual conferences”, p.163

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• The commands of democracy are as imperative as its privileges and opportunities are wide and generous. Its compulsion is upon us.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Responsibility, Opportunity, Democracy

  Woodrow Wilson (2012). “President Wilson's Addresses”, p.239, tredition

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• What a man does defiles him, not what is done by others.

  William Golding

  Responsibility, Men, Doe

  William Golding (2013). “Rites of Passage: With an introduction by Robert McCrum”, p.156, Faber & Faber

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• He who has trusted where he ought not will surely mistrust where he ought not.

  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

  Trust, Ought, Mistrust

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• The question is, when so many others cut corners, shave the truth, self-deal, believe in the fast buck, and follow the crowd along the low road of least resistance, can we even afford to travel the high road of ethical behavior? Frankly, we can't afford anything else. Any other competitive angle is a pure crapshoot in today's business world. Companies with shaky ethics and shabby standards will be crippled as they try to compete in our changing world.

  Price Pritchett

  Business, Believe, Cutting

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• We may observe that, in displaying the praises of any humane, beneficent man, there is one circumstance which never fails to be amply insisted on, namely, the happiness and satisfaction, derived to society from his intercourse and good offices.

  David Hume

  Men, Office, May

  David Hume (1826). “And the human understanding. An inquiry concerning the principles of morals. Appendix. The natural history of religion”, p.248

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• There is no perfect justice, just as there is no absolute in ethics.
  But there is perfect injustice, and we know it when we see it.

  Alan Dershowitz

  Perfect, Justice, Knows

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• There is a universal moral law, as distinct from a moral code, which consists of certain statements of fact about the nature of man, and by behaving in conformity with which, man may enjoy his true freedom.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Men, Law, May

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2010). “Mind of the Maker”, p.7, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Politics is noble; it is one of the highest forms of charity, as Paul VI used to say. We sully it when we mix it with business. The relationship between the Church and political power can also be corrupted if common good is not the only converging point.

  Pope Francis

  Leadership, Wisdom, Money

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• Speak out, educate, do not be intimidated by the apologists, and do not let extreme racism be mainstreamed. Hopefully there will come a time when we don't need to tell our kids that Halloween is no excuse for hate, and that blackface has no place in a civilized society.

  Christine Pelosi

  Leadership, Halloween, Hate

  "Halloween Is No Excuse for Hate: Blackface Has No Place" by Christine Pelosi, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 27, 2013.

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• ... the self respect of individuals ought to make them demand of their leaders conformity with an agreed-upon code of ethics and moral conduct.

  Mary Barnett Gilson

  Leadership, Respect, Self

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  The ethic of the journalist is to recognize one's prejudices, biases, and avoid getting them into print.

  Walter Cronkite

  Prejudice, Print, Journalist

  Source: www.midtod.com

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• A weakened sense of responsibility does not weaken the fact of responsibility.

  William Bennett

  Inspirational, Motivational, Responsibility

  William J. Bennett (1993). “Book of Virtues”, p.186, Simon and Schuster

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• In ethics, we don't make progress by discovering pre-existent truths; we do so by solving problems.

  Philip Kitcher

  Progress, Problem, Discovering

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• That's a central part of philosophy, of ethics. What do I owe to strangers? What do I owe to my family? What is it to live a good life? Those are questions which we face as individuals.

  Peter Singer

  Good Life, Philosophy, Faces

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