Quotes About Ethics

My mother always told me, 'I didn't make a perfume or go sell toilet paper. I did something good with my name.'

I even believe if you're killing a team, you shouldn't stop. You should respect your opponents enough to play 100 percent the whole time. And by the same token, if you're getting killed by the other team, you should never quit.

If programmers deserve to be rewarded for creating innovative programs, by the same token they deserve to be punished if they restrict the use of these programs.

Evil is tolerable if purged of coarseness.

There should be no tolerance for cheaters, especially in fighting.

Broad tolerance in the matter of beliefs is necessarily a part of the new ethics.

Business is not a spiritual matter, and my business decisions are not based on spiritual considerations. When I founded the Essence of Life, a project aimed at teaching tolerance and respectful dialogue, the person appointed to head it was Irit Atzmon, a former colonel in the army. Can anything be more down-to-earth than that?

Increasingly, people have very little tolerance for anything that smacks of propaganda.

Traditionally, baseball punishes preening. In a society increasingly tolerant of exhibitionism, it is splendid when a hitter is knocked down because in his last at bat he lingered at the plate to admire his home run.

I try so hard to be tolerant of everyone and their choices, but people who harm pets or support factory farming have an enemy in me.

I can tolerate anything but corruption and nepotism.

I have always been brazen. That's why I can't tolerate corruption.

No economy can tolerate the level of corruption seen in Nigeria without consequences.

I don't see how a socialist government can tolerate hunting on horseback. The people who do this are snobs; they're very well-to-do.

I won't tolerate lying.

One should not tolerate anything wrong. One should raise his/her voice against the wrongdoings. Don't ignore, just call out.

We have a lot of bad leaders around the world that operate in ways we would never tolerate in the United States.

I have never used the word 'boy' to describe a black, nor would I tolerate it in my office.

No one should tolerate indecent behaviour; it's an absolute no.

I cannot tolerate immorality.

I will not tolerate injustice.

I knew President Yeltsin well. He would never have tolerated government officials demonstratively showing off the millions they acquired through corruption, the way it's done today.

Was I involved in selling drivers licenses to people illegally? Hell no I wasn't. Would I have tolerated it? Hell no.

Criminal conduct by police officers, federal agents, and their confederates cannot be tolerated and will be met with the full force of the law.