Quotes about Ethics

Speak not evil of the absent, for it is unjust.

Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principles.

This would be the best of all possible worlds, if there were no religion in it. John Adams, U.S. President

Show not yourself glad at the misfortune of another though he were your enemy.

Should any American soldier be so base and infamous as to injure any prisoner ... I do most earnestly enjoin you to bring him to such severe and exemplary punishment as the enormity of the crime may require. Should it extend to death itself, it will not be disproportional to its guilt at such a time and in such a cause... for by such conduct they bring shame, disgrace and ruin to themselves and their country.

Labor to keep alive in your breaks that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.

I was initially recruited while I was in business school back in the late sixties by the National Security Agency, the nation's largest and least understood spy organization; but ultimately I worked for private corporations.

I think that people need to stand up with their backbone and not go to places where they feel like the workers aren't taken care of.

I just followed my parents' example and advice on living, which was to leave the world a better place than you found it. They were professional do-gooders, ministers of the church, social workers, teachers, and missionaries, that sort of thing.

Compassion, together with contractual responsibility for one's workforce, is a mark of a top employer.

The House of Marley started with the concept of working together for a better world.

There is no real excellence in all of this world which can be separated from right living.