Quotes about Ethics
Show not yourself glad at the misfortune of another though he were your enemy.
— George Washington
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.
— George Washington
Labor to keep alive in your breaks that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.
— George Washington
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.
— John Perkins
Compassion, together with contractual responsibility for one's workforce, is a mark of a top employer.
— Frans van Houten
There is no real excellence in all of this world which can be separated from right living.
— David Starr Jordan
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.
— Billy Graham
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.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
To compromise simply means that you go a tiny bit below what you know is right.
— Joyce Meyer
If any civilization is to survive, it is the morality of altruism that men have to reject.
— Ayn Rand
One thing that has to cease among Christians is the appeal to an audience to give with the promise of getting something.
— Scot McKnight
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.
— Scot McKnight