This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Though the ethical challenges we face in the workplace may be different from those in our personal lives, the principles of ethical conduct that apply to those challenges do not change. There is no such thing as business ethics - there is only ethics.
Business | Change | Conduct | Ethics | Principles | Business |
Ethics is putting principles into action. Consistently between what we say we value and what our actions say we value is a matter of integrity.
Action | Ethics | Integrity | Principles | Value |
In my experience, very few politicians have solid principles that they are unwilling to sell out for the sake of winning elections. They are, most of them, "the hollow men, stuffed men" of whom T. S. Eliot wrote, and in Clinton we have perhaps as extreme an embodiment of this professional deformation as can be unearthed.
Experience | Extreme | Men | Principles | Winning |
Noam Chomsky, fully Avram Noam Chomsky
We really don't know what the fundamental principles of moral judgment actually are, but we have very good reason to believe that they're there.
Good | Judgment | Principles | Reason |
To practice the basic principles of good health, visualize yourself as sound, healthy and filled with vitality and boundless life of your Creator. Look upon yourself as the unique individual that you are. Get in harmony with the creative, life-giving, health-maintaining forces of the universe. Affirm peace, wholeness, and good health - and they will be yours.
Giving | Good | Harmony | Health | Individual | Life | Life | Peace | Practice | Principles | Sound | Unique | Universe | Wholeness | Will |
To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.
Man | Principles |
Our eating, trading, marrying, and learning are mistaken by us for ends and realities, whilst they are properly symbols only; when we have come, by a divine leading [illness?] into the inner firmament, we are apprised of the unreality or representative character of what we esteem final.
No man can do anything well who does not esteem his work to be of importance.
Men… measure their esteem of each other by what each has, not by what each is.
All calm inquiry conducted among those who have their main principles of judgment in common, leads, if not to an approximation of views, yet, at least, to an increase of sympathy.
Inquiry | Judgment | Principles | Sympathy |
Your enjoyment of the world is never right, till every morning you awake in Heaven; see yourself in your Father’s Palace; and look upon the skies, the earth, and the air as Celestial Joys; having such a reverend esteem of all, as if you were among the angels.
Angels | Earth | Enjoyment | Esteem | Father | Heaven | Right | World |
Woodrow Wilson, fully Thomas Woodrow Wilson
To conquer with arms is to make only a temporary conquest; to conquer the world by earning its esteem is to make a permanent conquest.
General principles are not the less true or important because from their nature they elude immediate observation; they are like the air, which is not the less necessary because we neither see nor feel it.
Important | Nature | Observation | Principles |
B. H. Liddell Hart, fully Captain B. H. Liddell
The principles of war, not merely one principle, can be condensed into a single word - "Concentration." But the truth this needs to be amplified as the concentration of strength against weakness. And for real value, it needs to be explained that the concentration of strength against weakness depends on the dispersion of your opponent's strength.
Principles | Strength | Truth | War | Weakness |
Nothing, in truth, has such a tendency to weaken not only the powers of invention, but the intellectual powers in general, as a habit of extensive and various reading without reflection. The activity and force of mind are gradually impaired in consequence of disuse; and, not infrequently, all our principles and opinions come to be lost in the infinite multiplicity and discordancy of our acquired ideas.
Force | Habit | Ideas | Invention | Mind | Nothing | Principles | Reading | Reflection | Truth |
D. H. Lawrence, fully David Herbert "D.H." Lawrence
The Ethics and equity and the principles of justice do not change with the calendar.
Change | Equity | Ethics | Justice | Principles |