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
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
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