ethical behavior quotes

All of us knows, not what is expedient, not what is going to make us popular, not what the policy is, or the company policy – but in truth each of us knows what is the right thing to do. And that’s how I am guided.

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

The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: ‚If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?‘ But… the good Samaritan reversed the question: ‚If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?‘

I don’t follow all the 48 laws. Like, I’ve never crushed anyone totally.

The man of life upright has a guiltless heart, free from all dishonest deeds or thought of vanity.

You know that your happiness and suffering depend on the happiness and suffering of others. That insight helps you not to do wrong things that will bring suffering to yourself and to other people.

One tells as few lies as possible only by telling as few lies as possible, and not by having the least possible opportunity to do so.

A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men, and when he devotes himself helpfully to all life that is in need of help.

A man is truly ethical only when he obeys the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist, and shrinks from injuring anything that lives.

Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of few; and number not voices, but weigh them.

If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.