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Quotes About Ethics

Don't create more enemies than you take out by some immoral act.
~ Jim Mattis
I think there's something fundamentally wrong with thinking that there's a God who looks after you but kills everyone else. There's something, if not immoral, then gross, about it.
~ Tim Minchin
I'm not saying that every time I race I go to the very limit of my strength. But when the opportunity appears I consider it immoral not to take them.
~ Eddy Merckx
The law is immoral.
~ Mark Thomas
I try not to do anything that's immoral.
~ Alice Waters
Anything that reduces war-related destruction should not be considered altogether immoral.
~ Herman Kahn
Asking someone else to do something immoral is immoral.
~ Penn Jillette
I will call out someone if he's Islamophobic, and I will also call out anti-Semitism. It's immoral to call out one and not the other.
~ Mehdi Hasan
Trump's foreign policy is not so much immoral as it is amoral.
~ Richard N. Haass
Black people do not have AIDS because AIDS is a 'black disease'; black people are getting AIDS because most of them are immoral.
~ Jesse Lee Peterson
I like the English. They have the most rigid code of immorality in the world.
~ Malcolm Bradbury
The only immorality is not to do what one has to do when one has to do it.
~ Jean Anouilh
The best argument I know for an immortal life is the existence of a man who deserves one.
~ William James
No one can be immune from our laws; everyone must be held to account.
~ Tom Steyer
With scripts I've always looked at them and thought about kids, you know? Thought about the world and the impact... I won't do nudity and I never felt comfortable with that whole idea or things with huge sexual content - not my thing.
~ Carrie-Anne Moss
Look at your business and the activities that you undertake. Then, start to think about not just your economic concerns, but about social and environmental impacts that businesses have.
~ Jerry Greenfield
Right and wrong are not simply matters of evolutionary impacts and what is natural.
~ Julian Baggini
At Natura, we have long been committed to measure and improve the impacts of our activities.
~ Guilherme Leal
I know some people believe impartiality is key, and it's necessary in some situations, but in others - if something is so fundamentally wrong, why do we have to make out we're impartial?
~ Stacey Dooley
Be impeccable with your word.
~ Don Miguel Ruiz
There's a real moral imperative in being an organization that takes the time to sit and listen to the customers and the people they're serving.
~ Jacqueline Novogratz
As a general rule, interrogations without clearly defined legal limits are brutal. Particularly when they have an imperative to get information out of a captive immediately.
~ Malcolm Nance
The implementation of autonomous driving needs a whole new rethinking. To really make it an attribute for society, we really need to think differently about where and when and how we implement this.
~ Henrik Fisker
I'm never going to take the view that I should say whatever I need to say in order to achieve something. Because that implies a level of dishonesty.
~ Ken Livingstone