Quotes about Ethics
I have often noticed that a bribe has that effect - it changes a relation. The man who offers a bribe gives away a little of his own importance; the bribe once accepted, he becomes the inferior, like a man who has paid for a woman.
- Graham Greene
In the name of freedom, there has to be a correlation between rights and duties, by which every person is called to assume responsibility for his or her choices, made as a consequence of entering into relations with others.
- Pope Benedict XVI
If co-operation is a duty, I hold that non-co-operation also under certain conditions is equally a duty.
- Mahatma Gandhi
Enron - although an extreme case - is hardly the only company with a hollow set of values.
- Patrick Lencioni
Enron - although an extreme case - is hardly the only company with a hollow set of values.
- Patrick Lencioni
Honor is like a match, you can only use it once.
- Marcel Pagnol
All you should try to do is behave with honour. If you can. At all times.
- Damian Lewis
We praise heroes as though they are rare, and yet we are always ready to blame another man for lack of heroism.
- Graham Greene
Oh, it's not done,' I said, 'but neither is adultery or theft or running away from the enemy's fire. The not done things are done every day, Henry. It's part of modern life. I've done most of them myself.
- Graham Greene
I wondered whether she would consent to sleep with me that night if Pyle never came, but I knew that when I had smoked four pipes I would no longer want her.
- Graham Greene
It is astonishing the sense of innocence that goes with sin--only the hard and careful man and the saint are free of it.
- Graham Greene
There was not much one could do; he decided at least to be good.
- Graham Greene