Quotes About Ethics

Much of the world's moral compass is broken. The moral north reads south and the moral south reads north.

We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.

I think that Ronald Reagan had it right, being against abortion except in certain limited, defined circumstances.

Ronald Reagan, whatever his pros and cons were, was a public servant in the end.

Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.

The real question is, when will we draft an artificial intelligence bill of rights? What will that consist of? And who will get to decide that?

Better to just be real. Show up and do your job and be a nice person.

If I hadn't been fair, I would never have made the $6 billion in real estate deals that I did. I mean, if you're not fair, people don't want to deal with you.

I have my ethics and morals. I have my anchor point of what is right and wrong in real life, but I'm not afraid to entertain any and every aspect of personality in relationship to creating a character.

I have seen many teachers in real life, which come from the same background and morality and treat their profession like just another one rather than a noble profession.

Right is right, and wrong is wrong, and when people start getting it confused, that means they need to sit down with some real people.

There is a difference between using a made-up name and using real people as pseudonyms. People are not costumes you can wear. They are flesh and blood.

The Internet has the capacity to extend to us genuine choice, and that is not without risk. Real power does entail real responsibility.

I just have a real problem with people who seek to portray fatness or thinness as moral concepts.

Machine learning is looking for patterns in data. If you start with racist data, you will end up with even more racist models. This is a real problem.

I try to live with the idea that karma is a very real thing. So I put out what I want to get back.

I've run into a lot of companies that invent positions for great people just so they don't get away. But hiring people when you don't have real work for them is insulting to them and hurtful to you.

I realise that, strutting around in power corridors for political coverage, a journalist becomes half a politician.

I know a lot of law officers, and every single one of them faces a moment - usually after about three hours on the job - when they realise that there's no connection between law and justice.

There was one point where my mother was dying of lung cancer, and a journalist dressed up as a nurse and got in the house to get a picture of her, dying of lung cancer and stuff like that, and then you realise the fame's not all it's cracked up to be.

I was raised to think that if you behaved badly with men, you went to hell. I realise now it is puritanical and not very adult.

Politicians need to realise that words have consequences.

'The Gambler' by Dostoevsky. It was the first time I realised that it was possible to have good and evil in one person. It led me to read a lot of Russian literature.

My parents are naive in their morality of things, and so, without realising it, I landed up being ethical and having strong opinions.