Quotes About Ethics

Formerly well-respected news organizations and experienced national journalists are making the sorts of mistakes that aren't tolerated in journalism schools. When their mistakes are corrected at all, it's with little seeming regret.

Our common realm is not and cannot be stripped of values - I absolutely reject the idea that religion should somehow be tolerated but not encouraged in public life.

The culture or environment of a company starts from the top. The leadership. The leadership of a company sends a message to its employees of what is tolerated and what is not.

Louisiana's spicy, colorful politics have saddled our state with a reputation for tolerating lax ethical standards in government.

David Blum burned a lot of bridges. He burned people early in their careers. He took on the wrong people, though. He's not Hunter Thompson or Tom Wolfe, he's David Blum living in a cheap flat.

What would you think of a postmistress who chose not to deliver the mail?" I asked.

Julia's unhappy relationship with the Inland Revenue was due to her omission, during four years of modestly successful practice at the Bar, to pay any income tax. The truth is, I think, that she did not, in her heart of hearts, really believe in income tax. It was a subject which she had studied for examinations and on which she had thereafter advised a number of clients: she naturally did not suppose, in these circumstances, that it had anything to do with real life.

it is impossible to become a billionaire without bending the rules. Most of the members of that class run their operations and live their lives in ways that injure our communities. Most are trying to rig the system even further. These are not upstanding citizens. They are parasites and freeloaders—however they try to justify themselves. We do not owe them deference.

They are moral choices. And they are being made by a self-dealing network whose private-sector members have been handed control of the public trust to a degree unprecedented in the United States, even in the Gilded Age.

In the United States, serious and damaging public corruption is not getting punished. That means, by default, that we deem it to be just fine.

Trump has taken mafia government to heights unrivaled in this country's history. His swiftness to trade U.S. policy concessions for personal advancement will be the most shameful legacy of his presidency.

For example, executives and HR departments should not offer the vice president of Enron a string of government jobs in the public-private international development and infrastructure industries after his company's debacle.

young people no longer "believe in the old standards and authorities, and they're not intelligent enough, many of them, to put a code of morals and conduct in place of the sanctions that have been destroyed for them.

Imagine a sunset, lavender and red / as battered morals . . .

HIPPOLYTUS: I can't sin against a God I don't believe in.

Young men do not respect girls they can take advantage of - and they do not as easily take advantage of girls they respect.

I can think of no more dangerous a position than to learn to tolerate evil in order to become accustomed to reality.

Why do you think people cheat?," I asked. "Because they're bored? Because they can? Because they're selfish and think they're entitled to anything they want? Because they don't think they'll get caught?

What you're asking me to do is monstrous." "So? Ain't we both monsters?

I thought you were trying to prove to the board you're responsible?' 'I'll use a condom. Does that count?

Dead people are bad for business." She gave a half smile. "Except for in your business.

T'aint' no use to look for public sperit 'less you've got some yourself.

It seems to me like stealing, for men and women to live in the world and do nothing to make it better.

Certain brands of guilt can be inculcated in a secular way but other brands of guilt can only be obtained with reference to the metaphysical.