Quotes about Ethics

Banks need to think through their ethics very carefully, and many have done so. I don't know any bank that dismisses the concept of ethical banking.

Thus you are just not because you give what is owed, but because you do what is appropriate to you as the highest good.

Sometimes negative news does come out, but it is often exaggerated and manipulated to spread scandal. Journalists sometimes risk becoming ill from coprophilia and thus fomenting coprophagia: which is a sin that taints all men and women, that is, the tendency to focus on the negative rather than the positive aspects.

My own personal popularity can have no influence over me when the dictates of my best judgment and the obligations of an oath require of me a particular course. Under such circumstances, whether I sink or swim on the tide of popular favor is, to me, a matter of inferior consideration.

Never judge a philosophy by its abuse

In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?

Punishment is justice for the unjust.

For what is that which we call evil but the absence of good?

Conscience and reputation are two things. Conscience is due to yourself, reputation to your neighbour.

Nothing is so much to be shunned as sex relations.

Remove prostitutes from human affairs, and you will destroy everything with lust.

Though defensive violence will always be 'a sad necessity' in the eyes of men of principle, it would be still more unfortunate if wrongdoers should dominate just men.