Quotes about Ethics

Keyholes are the occasions of more sin and wickedness, than all other holes in this world put together.

Christians ought to have a different approach to business. As believers, we should view work as both service and a form of worship.

What we do flows from who we are.

Moral crusaders with zeal but no ethical understanding are likely to give us solutions that are worse than the problems.

The word of a gentleman is as good as his bond; and sometimes better.

The first rule of business is: Do other men for they would do you.

"Do other men for they would do you." That's the true business precept.

In a utilitarian age, of all other times, it is a matter of grave importance that fairy tales should be respected." ( Frauds on the Fairies , 1853)

If you can't get to be uncommon through going straight, you'll never get to do it through going crooked. [...] live well and die happy.

unless we learn to do our duty to those whom we employ, they will never learn to do their duty to us

To do a great right, you may do a little wrong; and you may take any means which the end to be attained will justify.

Let no man turn aside, even so slightly, from the broad path of honor, on the plausible pretence that he is justified by the goodness of his end. All good ends can be worked out by good means. Those that cannot, are bad; and may be counted so at once, and left alone.