Quotes about Ethics

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Kerry Stokes

Ethics or simple honesty is the building blocks upon which our whole society is based, and business is a part of our society, and it's integral to the practice of being able to conduct business, that you have a set of honest standards.

Ronald Reagan

I have noticed that everybody that is for abortion has already been born.

This is a wonderful example of a good rhetorical technique. He focuses the attention on the unborn by observing that all his opponents on this point have already been born. Of course, he and all his supporters on the point—those who are against abortion—have already been born also. So what would the unborn say? Well that no one could know nor can any one know if the unborn have any thoughts must less thoughts on the subject of abortion.

C. S. Lewis

Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching.

John Bolton

Accountability begins with transparency.

William Penn

He that does good for good's sake seeks neither paradise nor reward, but he is sure of both in the end.

Bertrand Russell

We need a science to save us from science.

Elmer H. MacKay

Land is not something you inherit from your parents. It is something you borrow from your children.

Mark Twain

It's my opinion that every one I know has morals, though I wouldn't like to ask. I know I have. But I'd rather teach them than practice them any day. "Give them to others"-that's my motto.

Socrates

An honest man is always a child.

Thomas Jefferson

Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct.

Marcus Aurelius

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.

Vladimir Lenin

There are no morals in politics; there is only expedience. A scoundrel may be of use to us just because he is a scoundrel.

John F. Kennedy

The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in times of great moral crisis maintain their neutrality

Kennedy said that he was quoting Dante. However, he or his speechwriter, got the quote wrong. In the Devine Comedy, Dante had a hot place in hell for the neutral, but the hottest place was reserved for traitors. Many people since then use this quote and attribute incorrectly to Dante because Kennedy’s version is the only one with which they have come in contact.

Michel de Montaigne

Saying is one thing and doing is another.

Mark Twain

I do not like an injurious lie, except when it injures somebody else.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Even in war moral power is to physical as three parts out of four.

Independent verification has so far failed.

John F. Kennedy

A man does what he must - in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures - and that is the basis of all human morality.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Who saves his country violates no law.

Mark Twain

When in doubt, tell the truth. It will confound your enemies and astound your friends.

Winston Churchill

Courage is the most important of the virtues because it is the one that makes all the others possible.

Winston Churchill

The price of greatness is responsibility.

Izaak Walton

The person that loses their conscience has nothing left worth keeping.

Benjamin Disraeli

Justice is truth in action.

John Mackey

The right actions undertaken for the right reasons generally lead to good outcomes over time.

Niccolo Machiavelli

The prince must not mind incurring the scandal of those vices without which it would be difficult to save the state.

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