Quotes about Ethics

When we look to the unborn child, the real issue is not when life begins, but when love begins.

Be not glad at the misfortune of another, though he may be your enemy.

I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty is always the best policy.

Wherein you reprove another be unblameable yourself, for example is more prevalent than precepts.

Do not suffer your good nature ... to say yes when you ought to say no; remember that it is a public not a private cause that is to be injured or benefitted by your choice

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.