Quotes about Ethics

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.

The time has come for all evangelists to practice full financial disclosure. The world is watching how we walk and how we talk. We must have the highest standards of morality, ethics and integrity if we are to continue to have influence.

Cowardice asks the question, is it safe? Expediency asks the question, is it politic? Vanity asks the question, is it popular? But conscience asks the question, is it right? And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but one must take it because it is right.

To compromise simply means that you go a tiny bit below what you know is right.

If any civilization is to survive, it is the morality of altruism that men have to reject.

Louisiana's spicy, colorful politics have saddled our state with a reputation for tolerating lax ethical standards in government.

One thing that has to cease among Christians is the appeal to an audience to give with the promise of getting something.

At the heart of the Ten Commandments is an Israelite's honesty about one's neighbor (Exod 20:16). At the heart of the Bible's ethic is telling the truth. Honesty mattered then and it matters now.