Quotes About Ethics

Live and die in Aristotle's works.

The autobiographer works in a treacherous terrain. The journalist has a much safer job.

I don't believe that torture works.

Anderson's muckraking is one of debatable ends constantly used to justify questionable works.

If you're a doctor, what do you promise to do? First, do no harm. If your operating philosophy is do no harm, that's not a call to imagination. Not only that, if I'm a patient, I don't want your imagination. I want what works.

There will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands.

Technology gives us power, but it does not and cannot tell us how to use that power. Thanks to technology, we can instantly communicate across the world, but it still doesn't help us know what to say.

Successful people have a social responsibility to make the world a better place and not just take from it.

Justice? You get justice in the next world, in this world you have the law.

We're going to merge with machines and become gods, but first, we've got to reduce the world population 90 percent.

There is no real excellence in all of this world which can be separated from right living.

The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children.

One should see the world, and see himself as a scale with an equal balance of good and evil. When he does one good deed the scale is tipped to the good - he and the world is saved. When he does one evil deed the scale is tipped to the bad - he and the world is destroyed.

Football, that's just athletics. But in the business world - doing everything - people are competing. So you need good work ethics, and I think it helped me to develop good work ethics, being in a small town.

We owe it to ourselves and to the next generation to conserve the environment so that we can bequeath our children a sustainable world that benefits all.

Looking at the world through a sustainability lens not only helps us 'future proof' our supply chain, it also fuels innovation and drives brand growth.

I admire the military. I guess in a world of villains and heroes, they're my heroes. Their dedication, their commitment, their discipline, their code of ethics.

I do not believe there is a problem in this country or the world today which could not be settled if approached through the teaching of the Sermon on the Mount.

How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.

Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean.

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

If there is a country that has committed unspeakable atrocities in the world, it is the United States of America.

The time has come for all evangelists to practice full financial disclosure. The world is watching how we walk and how we talk. We must have the highest standards of morality, ethics and integrity if we are to continue to have influence.

Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals.