Quotes About Ethics

Mrs LINDE: When you've sold yourself once for the sake of others, you don't do it second time.

It is probably safe to say that over a long period of time, political morality has been as high as business morality.

If mankind is naturally good, he is sure going against his nature more and more of the time. It sounds like a bad joke: the paranoids are after us.

It's time to face facts: Most people stop being environmentalists when they sit down to eat.

If you do the crime, be prepared to do the time!

Don't expect to be able to upload your cat's brain into your Roomba any time soon.

We did what our people do all the time, we told ourselves something we did was right and we found a way to justify it, even though we knew it was wrong.

Many people have a very hard time truly believing that doing the right thing by others, striving to serve them to the greatest extent, can actually be a competitive advantage.

A new poll shows that Americans now believe that Bill Clinton is more honest than President Bush. At least when Clinton screwed the nation, he did it one person at a time.

We need to protect the same amount of cognitive liberty in an age where you can invade people's thoughts without physically intruding into their homes than you did at the time of the framing.

There was a time when self-promotion was considered so verboten, especially for authors.

Pat Robertson is an embarrassment to the church and a danger to American politics, .. It's time for Christian leaders of all stripes to call on Robertson not just to apologize but to retire.

On Saint Paul, he's probably one of the best theologians of all time, but I don't believe that some of his teachings are appropriate today.

And I think, not for the first time, that what is immoral is not always wrong.

Joe Paterno was a well-educated man, and he was also a man from a different time.

I always thought that being at Time and tweaking your bosses and exploiting your expense account was just fun. Just joyous.

If a man sets out to study all the laws, he will have no time left to transgress them.

He that makes use of another's fancy or necessity to sell ribbons or cloth dearer to him than to another man at the same time, cheats him.

The best scientists that I've met are those that are humanists and scientists at the same time.

Apparently the only time the press gets it right is when the White House illegally leaks it to them.

Do the right thing. Not just when it's convenient for you, but all the time. Words to live by.

There is no conceivable human action which custom has not at one time justified and at another condemned.

Time is a great legalizer even in the fields of morals.

It is in trifles and when he is off his guard that a man best shows his character.