Quotes About Ethics

Assume that everybody can see what you are doing and then live your life that way - you will find that generally you are treated right.

Life begins at conception, but allow early abortions.

I don't think people should be primarily concerned with money or material success. They should be concerned with doing that which is right and being in harmony with the way of life.

I believe that it is the responsibility of everyone in corporate life to help with the funding of non-profit organizations.

You can take power from others; you can steal it. It is not a very high-grade power. It will give you a certain amount of access to a better life; but it corrupts the individual.

The rhythm of life is give and take. It is necessary to put things back into the system. To not do that is to foul your own nest - to use up all the natural resources greedily.

I've never been in a barroom brawl in my life. I just don't do such things

I think that the notion of justice and the issues and values that I understood growing up and [have] continued to embrace throughout my life and into my career have been the same.

If your culture is not peaceful, throw it from your life! If your religion is not peaceful, throw it from your life! Anything which is not peaceful is worthless! Throw it from your life!

Adults who enter into public life implicitly consent to having less privacy, but their families - especially their children - should not be treated callously or thoughtlessly.

A clear division between good and evil, right and wrong, would simplify everything, but life was rarely simple.

Our leaders and Osama Bin Laden all claim to do the right thing in the name of God. I question that. I wonder if that God is worth the life of another human-being.

Do you know that the harder thing to do and the right thing to do are usually the same thing? Nothing that has meaning is easy,"Easy" doesn't enter into grown-up life.

Morality must keep up with technology because if a person is faced with the choice of being moral and dead or immoral and alive, they'll choose life everytime.

The medium's gaze is brief, intense, and promiscuous. The shelf life of the moral causes it makes its own is brutally short.

I think there's a God and I know it's not me. I don't have a set of tenets, but I live an ethical life.

Good character is the single most important attribute of a successful and worthy life.

I have never owned a share of stock in my life, and the only time I've double dipped into anything is at the snack tray.

To eat with a fuller consciousness of all that is at stake might sound like a burden, but in practice few things in life afford quite as much satisfaction.

That's the problem with folks nowadays. Nobody takes responsibility for their actions. Make a mistake and you pay for it. That's life.

There is no knowledge so hard to acquire as the knowledge of how to live this life well and naturally.

Now, of all the benefits that virtue confers upon us, the contempt of death is one of the greatest.

Life in itself is neither good nor evil, it is the place of good and evil, according to what you make it.

"He preaches well that lives well," quoth Sancho, "that's all the divinity I can understand."