Ethics quotes

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◆ There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.

- Elie Wiesel100

◆ A rationalism of serving any living being with a consistent ethics and morality of an unquestionable nature in any sphere of activity is only PROFESSIONALISM.

- Anuj Somany100

◆ The only tyrant I accept in this world is the 'still small voice' within

- Mahatma Gandhi99

◆ It is curious - curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare

- Mark Twain99

◆ Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.

- W Clement Stone99

◆ Its a sign of troubled times when the concept of pressure becomes an acceptable excuse for ethical shortcuts and moral shortcomings. Pressures are just temptations in disguise and its never been acceptable to give in to temptation. Ethics is about the way things ought to be, not about the way things are. When it comes to ethics, motive is very important. A person of character does the right thing for the right reason. Compliance is about what we must do; ethics is about what we should do. Ethical people often do more than the law requires and less than it allows. The area of discretion between the legal must and the moral should tests our character. Noble talk and framed ethics statements are no substitute for principled conduct. The test is doing the right thing.

- Michael Josephson99

◆ Character is doing the right thing even when it costs more than you want to pay. When it comes to character, you dont have to be sick to get better. Its easier for a good person to get better than for a bad person to get good.

- Michael Josephson99

◆ The devil is and always has been a gentleman.

- Diane LaVey99

◆ Even the most rational approach to ethics is defenseless if there isn't the will to do what is right

- Alexander Solzhenitsyn99

◆ Ethics is not definable, is not implementable, because it is not conscious; it involves not only our thinking, but also our feeling.

- Valdemar W Setzer99

◆ If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.

- Albert Einstein99

◆ To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.

- G K Chesterton99

◆ The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.

- Confucius99

◆ Never let a sense of what is right blind you to what is true.

- Scott Allen99

◆ There are no passengers on Spaceship Earth. We are all crew.

- Marshall McLuhan99