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Quotes About Ethics

Money has a long and sinister reach. It slips into the system, changes hands And starts to eat away at the foundations Of everything we stand for.
~ Seamus Heaney
My flesh was not for feasting on
~ Seamus Heaney
Let me educate you In one short sentence. War has an appetite For human goodness but it won't touch the bad.
~ Seamus Heaney
Candour before canniness. Doing the right thing And not just saying it.
~ Seamus Heaney
You can't, friend, have your palm greased and expect To get away clean. Everything comes out.
~ Seamus Heaney
Behaviour that's admired is the path to power among people everywhere.
~ Seamus Heaney
We have taken control of biology, but not of ourselves.
~ Sean B Carroll
Texas has waited too long for a governor who knows that quid pro quo shouldn't be the status quo. It's time for a governor who believes that you don't have to buy a place in Texas' future.
~ Wendy Davis
A lot of executives act like their time is worth more than anyone else's. But I always respect an employee who guards his or her time, even from me.
~ Eli Broad
It's time to restore honor and dignity to the White House.
~ George W. Bush
You are as crooked as a bank robber if you do not pay your debts on time.
~ Jack Hyles
Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it.
~ John Ruskin
...the devil we blame our atrocities on is really just each one of us. So don't expect the end of the world to come one day out of the blue - it's been happening every day for a long time.
~ Marilyn Manson
We each have all the time there is; our mental and moral status is determined by what we do with it.
~ Mary Elizabeth McGrath Blake
Every time thief steals, he steals from his own peace, from his own honour! No man is as poor as a rich thief!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
I don't believe society understands what happens when everything is available, knowable and recorded by everyone all the time.
~ Eric Schmidt
But I have always said that it's important we must make sure that justice is at all time be maintained.
~ Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
It is for us and our time...to say the right makes might.
~ Abraham Lincoln
The first principle from which stems the moral of about all people at all time; it is summarized in this precept: Love thy neighbour as thyself, and: do as you would be done by.
~ African Spir
I would love us to bring back our Juedo-Christian values and begin to teach those things, at a time other than a political election.
~ Benjamin Carson
I'm not saying looting is good, ... But I'm saying surely at a time when your child needs diapers and you need food, when does looting stop.
~ Bill Cosby
You elected government officials to make decisions and it's about time they started making good ones
~ Bob Riley
It was time to pull my moral socks up and behave myself.
~ Charlaine Harris
There are some who write, talk, and think, so much about vice and virtue, that they have no time to practice either the one or the other.
~ Charles Caleb Colton