Quotes About Ethics

If you don't have public hangings for bad culture in a company, if you don't take people out and let them say, they went home to spend more time with the family. It's crazy.

Am I surprised that Joe Klein [pseudonymous author of Primary Colors which he denied writing] lied? No, because in my opinion reporters lie all the time.

The only time the press doesn't sensationalize information is when one of their own is kidnapped. Interesting how they show restraint then.

Go beyond what you feel like doing and do what's right. Every time you do what's right when you don't feel like it, you are growing.

Of course, my views developed in the course of time. But I have always believed in what I did and never acted against my conscience.

I wish to live without committing any fault at any time.

Shouldn't we be against procreation at this point in time? With overpopulation and the strain on the resources on this planet? Shouldn't we reward people who don't spawn?

When President Clinton starts talking about what is moral, as he did when recommending a national law banning human cloning, it's time for us to lock up our daughters.

I'm fully aware that every time I do anything, good or bad, somebody's watching.

As climbers, we need to learn to be good stewards of the land and take care of these places where we are spending so much time.

How transcendent is the virtue of the middle conduct! Rare for a long time has been its practice among the people.

If you tell lies about a product, you will be found out - either by the Government, which will prosecute you, or by the consumer, who will punish you by not buying your product a second time.

Look, we're in the time of the anti-hero.

For a long time the IOC liked the idea of money but they didn't like the thought of working for it.

When a secretary of state rakes in millions and millions of dollars trading access and favors to special interests and foreign powers, I know the time for action has come.

I say guilt, gentlemen, because it was guilt that motivated her. She has committed no crime, she has merely broken a rigid and time-honored code of our society.

Guantanamo has become the gulag of our time.

The war of good and evil is mightiest in mightiest souls, and even in the darkest time the heart will maintain its right against the hardest creed.

Well, there was a time when we used to sacrifice goats, but then we all became vegans, so we've been sacrificing tofu before the shows!

I don't have any doubt in my mind that there will come a time when we will see violence against animal rights abusers.

Non virtuous behavior brings about unhappiness. Every time.

Leaders are forced to kill all the time. Then they have to learn to live with the decisions they make. Just like I'm going to learn to live with mine.

There's never any time I think I'm a real journalist, because I don't have any of the qualifications or the intentions for that.

We made a big mistake 300 years ago when we separated technology and humanism. It's time to put the two back together.