If ethics are poor at the top, that behavior is copied down through the organization.
The thinking (person) must oppose all cruel customs, no matter how deeply rooted in tradition and surrounded by a halo. When we have a choice, we must avoid bringing torment and injury into the life of another.
Don't worry so much about your self-esteem. Worry more about your character. Integrity is its own reward.
A single lie destroys a whole reputation for integrity.
Relativity applies to physics, not ethics.
Do the right thing because it is right.
A man's ethical behaviour should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.
What good men most biologists are, the tenors of the scientific world - temperamental, moody, lecherous, loud-laughing, and healthy. Your true biologist will sing you a song as loud and off-key as will a blacksmith, for he knows that morals are too often diagnostic of prostatitis and stomach ulcers. Sometimes he may proliferate a little too much in all directions, but he is as easy to kill as any other organism, and meanwhile he is very good company, and at least he does not confuse a low hormone productivity with moral ethics.
A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.
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.
About morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.
Without civic morality communities perish; without personal morality their survival has no value.
I am not interested in power for power's sake, but I'm interested in power that is moral, that is right and that is good.
Live so that when your children think of fairness, caring, and integrity, they think of you.
In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so.
The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal is integrity.
Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.
Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself.
The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.
The meaning of good and bad, of better and worse, is simply helping or hurting.
Don't be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so.
What is moral is what you feel good after.
Have the courage to face the truth
Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambition.
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