Quotes About Ethics

Someone once asked, 'What is the difference between me and Saddam Hussein?' The answer is, 'I have a conscience and he doesn't.'

To be sure, boxing has always been, at best, a shady and sometimes cutthroat business, buttressed by hype and tomfoolery rivalling, at times, that of carnival circuses.

I abhor hypocrisy.

Our fear of hypocrisy is forcing us to live in a world where gluttons are fine, so long as they champion gluttony.

Hypocrisy is the scarlet letter in politics.

A hypocrite is a person who - but who isn't?

Prince Charles has his foibles, but he is not a crook, not a bully, and not a hypocrite.

We are going from reading our genetic code to the ability to write it. That gives us the hypothetical ability to do things never contemplated before.

It's very difficult for the family members of ICE agents, and it's very difficult for ICE agents to know what's right and what's wrong and why should I get engaged and go out there and enforce the law when I don't know what it means any more to have consequences.

Anything I do must have a line of idealism.

When you are very idealistic, but caught in a world which is all about business, it creates anguish.

I try to do my science in a moral way, and, I believe that, ideally, science should be looked upon as something that helps us understand our role in the universe.

Democracy or politics done without values and ideals is dangerous for the country.

I've felt this real need to ground my work in my ideals.

For me, I don't have a loyalty to a set of ideals.

I have a clean conscience and ideals that I am willing to defend.

I don't accept ideologies that are not a product of consensus. I don't have an ideology, but I do have a sense of what's right and what's wrong.

The ruling ideology prefers to talk about individual ethics rather than the capitalist system.

People who weren't there can say it was idiotic or shortsighted, but when you're in a moment where horrible things are happening in front of you, sometimes you just need to act on what's best.

I have a bit of a problem with 'American Idol.' Forgive me, but it's difficult for me to watch. I can't help but think of people being exploited. On the other hand, I'm really enjoying 'Glee.'

If I could ban boxing, I probably would, but I'll tell you in the same breath, I loved it growing up.

Humans can no longer ignore nonhumans: they end up haunting the words we use and interrupting everyday talk.

Citizens with a conscience are not going to ignore wrong-doing simply because they'll be destroyed for it: the conscience forbids it.

All businesses should have an element of social enterprise, and all social enterprises should not ignore the most important lessons from successful commercial businesses.