Ethics Newsline® » Quote from the Ethics File

Integrity

Carl Hausman — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 22:21:49 +0000

“One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.”

– Chinua Achebe (Nigerian novelist, poet, professor, and critic, 1930- )

Health

Carl Hausman — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 22:33:20 +0000

“He who has health has hope, and he who has hope has everything.”

– Arabian proverb

A Winner Image

Carl Hausman — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 01:07:39 +0000

“It is necessary for me to establish a winner image. Therefore, I have to beat somebody.”

– Richard Nixon (37th U.S. president, 1913-1994)

Conscience

Carl Hausman — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 19:29:40 +0000

“He who sacrifices his conscience to ambition burns a picture to obtain the ashes.”

– Chinese proverb

Straight Shooting

Carl Hausman — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 01:22:13 +0000

“You don’t have to be straight to be in the military; you just have to be able to shoot straight.”

– Barry Goldwater (Five-term U.S. senator and Republican 1964 presidential candidate, 1909-1998)

Greed

Carl Hausman — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 02:28:06 +0000

“Happy the man who has learned the cause of things and has put under his feet all fear, inexorable fate, and the noisy strife of the hell of greed.”

– Virgil (Classical Roman poet, 70 BCE – 19 BCE)

Purchase Politics

Carl Hausman — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 00:09:56 +0000

“If one man offers you democracy and another offers you a bag of grain, at what stage of starvation do you prefer the grain to the vote?”

– Bertrand Russell (English mathematician and philosopher, 1872-1970)

Reaching

Carl Hausman — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 22:27:38 +0000

“I refuse to accept the idea that the “is-ness” of man’s present nature makes him morally incapable of reaching up for the “ought-ness” that forever confronts him.”

– Martin Luther King, Jr. (U.S. clergyman and civil-rights leader, 1929-1968)

Justice

Carl Hausman — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 00:49:20 +0000

“No cause is hopeless if it is just. Errors, no matter how popular, carry the seeds of their own destruction.”

– John W. Scoville

The Cheering Section

Carl Hausman — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 01:10:52 +0000

“Do not trust to the cheering, for those very persons would shout as much if you and I were going to be hanged.”

– Oliver Cromwell (English military and political leader, 1599-1658)