Quotes About Ethics

The mood of the country is set by its leaders and they are failing us by not setting a compassionate moral tone in a complex time.

I think it's a shame that we have 'Bild' like you have the 'Sun'. Now serious newspapers like 'FAZ' and 'Spiegel' use a bit of the tone of 'Bild.' This is terrible.

The higher the moral tone, the more suspect the speaker.

Leadership means setting a moral tone.

My father really set the tone for us to be a more moral nation, to take a moral high ground in everything that we do.

At the highest level of the government, we have to set the tone and preach by example.

What I hope is if you turn on the news tonight, I want to find a way to stop all this corruption I see.

Tony Rezko and Bill Ayers should lead the Democratic Party. They are the only Democrats with any convictions.

One of the things I liked about playing Tony Gates in 'Line of Duty' was that I don't think he gave much thought to justifying his actions until he was under investigation.

Tony Blair is a dreadful man; really truly dreadful.

George W. Bush and Tony Blair had to convince the world that Saddam Hussein represented an imminent threat. Tony Blair lied when he claimed that Iraq could launch a chemical or biological attack within 45 minutes.

Tony Blair is paid $500,000 for one speech, and no one asks how he is going to spend it.

People using a public platform to further their own personal agenda, I think that's immoral. You have no right to do that. Tony Blair is a great example of that.

I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.

The number one rule of thieves is that nothing is too small to steal.

I have too many responsibilities and principles. There's no time for 'guilty' pleasures.

My opinion is it's a bridge too far to go to fully autonomous cars.

Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity.

Someone who lies about the little things will lie about the big things too.

What is right to be done cannot be done too soon.

One of the reasons it's important for me to write about war is I really think that the concept of war, the specifics of war, the nature of war, the ethical ambiguities of war, are introduced too late to children. I think they can hear them, understand them, know about them, at a much younger age without being scared to death by the stories.

Like gods, we have created a new universe called cyberspace that contains great good and ominous evil. We do not know yet if this new dimension will produce more monsters than marvels, but it is too late to go back.

But there are too many people that make so much money at the cost of lives of other humans and for no reason but to make the money.

Not too many people in cocktail parties are aware of Bioprinting and growing organs, or the coming technological singularity; I've seen very little philosophical speculation about how far we can go, how much we could achieve.