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Fave quotes about ethics
Treat others the way they would like to be treated.
– Platinum Rule
Do unto those downstream as you would have those upstream do unto you.
– Wendell Berry
It seems to me that if we can imagine the injustice, then we can imagine its opposite.
– Paul Keating, (sampled in From little things big things grow)
Virtus sola nobilitas (virtue is the only nobility)
– Sir Charles Nicholson
All questions of religion and ethics are really questions as to what are optimal game rules.
– Alan Watts
A quiet conscience is an invention of the Devil.
– Albert Schweitzer
The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they’re going to have some pretty annoying virtues.
– Elizabeth Taylor
Thou shalt not be a victim. Thou shalt not be a perpetrator. Above all, thou shalt not be a bystander.
– Holocaust Museum, Washington, DC
Two wrongs don’t make a right.
– Poi Dog Pondering
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 one’s conscience tells one that it is right.
– Martin Luther King Jr.
Why can’t I be good?
– Lou Reed
When he discovered virtue, he gave vice a dirty name.
– Austin Lounge Lizards
Treat others the way you would like to be treated.
– Jesus
The golden rule is more and more recognized as the first rule of travel and adventure travel and I’m told that group organizers are rewarded by their customers for observing it.
– Clay Hubbs
Do unto those downstream as you would have those upstream do unto you.
– Wendell Berry
La ética no es una condición ocasional, sino que debe acompañar siempre al periodismo como el zumbido al moscardón. (Ethics is not an occasional condition, but must always accompany journalism like buzzing to the bumblebee)
– Gabriel García Márquez
One way of fighting injustice is working toward justice.
– Conversation
Lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for.
– Clarence Darrow
The Code for Corporate Citizenship – The duty of directors henceforth shall be to make money for stakeholders, but not at the expense of the environment, human rights, public health and safety, dignity of employees and the welfare of the communities in which the company operates.
– Robert Hinkley
In an interconnected world we have great need and basic responsibility, for our own survival, to attend to the weakest links. By that I mean those places in the world that suffer, those places in the world where people die because they are too poor to stay alive, those parts of the world which — by virtue of physical geography, epidemiology, climate stress, rain-fed agriculture and drought-prone savannah climates for example — face horrific challenges to even get onto the ladder of development. One billion people on the planet are too poor, too hungry, too disease-burdened, too bereft of the most basic infrastructure even to get on the ladder of development. The rich world seems to be believe, despite all the fine speeches (and there have been many), that this doesn’t really matter, because the actions of the rich countries don’t begin to address this problem. We are leaving ten million people to die every year because they are too poor to stay alive. Fine speeches will not solve that problem.
– Jeffrey Sachs, Reith Lectures 2007: Bursting at the Seams
If you want to scare away the vampires, you simply guide them into the light.
– Michael Franti and Spearhead, Yell Fire
If we live as if it matters, and it doesn’t matter, then it doesn’t matter. If we live as if it doesn’t matter, and it matters, then it matters.
– Popular saying
If you do things right, people won’t be sure you’ve done anything at all.
– Futurama
Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.
– Will Rogers
Always do what’s right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other.
– Mark Twain
Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none.
– William Shakespeare
Grub first, then ethics
– Bertolt Brecht
La ética no es una condición ocasional, sino que debe acompañar siempre al periodismo como el zumbido al moscardón
– Gabriel García Márquez
Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
– John F. Kennedy
Rotten wood cannot be carved.
– Confucius
All that is necessary for evil to triumph is that good men do nothing.
– Edmund Burke
We must, however, keep in mind that in our desire to help people who are poor and powerless, that we do not do so in ways that, in the long run, keep them poor and powerless –– and dependent upon us.
– Seattle Community Network
Foundations are playing a game of poker and the other players don’t get enough cards.
– Conversation
If one of my hotel guests requests a taxi, do I get a commission?
– Hostel owner rejecting the idea from a taxi driver that a commission should be paid for guests brought to his establishment
We ought to focus as much on the micro as the macro.
– David Fennell, Ethics and Sustainable Tourism (slidecast)
Videos
How Ethics Can Help You Make Better Decisions – Michael Schur/TED
Wikipedia
Ethics
Ethical dilemma
Planeta.com