Quotes about Ethics
Justice is truth in action.
— Benjamin Disraeli
Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
— Samuel Johnson
Most blacks have lost the moral authority to claim the mantle of civil rights because they refuse to stand for what is right.
— Jesse Lee Peterson
I've made six films for Disney, and they have a clause in their contracts called the morality clause that I've always refused to sign.
— Stellan Skarsgard
Regardless of what society says, we can't go on much longer in the sea of immorality without judgment coming.
— Billy Graham
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