Quotes About Ethics

Growing up poor taught me a lot. It instilled in me the ethics of hard work.

My father instilled attention to detail and a sense of duty and responsibility.

Character is that quality of mind which makes truth-telling instinctive rather than strange.

We need a better way to talk about eating animals, a way that doesn't ignore or even just shruggingly accept things like habits, cravings, family and history but rather incorporates them into the conversation. The more they are allowed in, the more able we will be to follow our best instincts.

The Sanders Institute will not be taking any potshots at people.

The law, as an institution, avoids justice, subverts it, just as often as it sees it done.

Every public institution in the United States and most private ones are corrupt.

One of the reasons you study at great institutions or aspire to work in great corporations is that you hope to acquire the values they stand for.

There are a large number of institutions in this country which we should not politicise.

I don't believe that someone who sets up an institution should be able to take out the money from the institution or pay dividends to shareholders. I am not saying that institutions should be set up for charity.

Every institution has its own dignity, and if people don't respect the dignity of those institutions, it affects the whole system.

The values we developed were instrumental in gaining a competitive advantage.

When evil acts in the world it always manages to find instruments who believe that what they do is not evil but honorable.

Amplifying acoustic instruments more than a little is really cheating, and everything becomes a compromise.

Let's hold insurance companies accountable the right way by making them put their whole customer base on the line.

I think my moral ground is very much intact.

I keep my sanctity and respect intact.

I think it's always been especially hard for black people to let go of musicians who do heinous things because music is such an integral part of our existence.

How do you cut off the human side and just maintain being professional? So what I've done is I've incorporated that with Kojak - there's times when he allows the human condition, the human experience, to integrate into him as a professional.

Integrity reveals beauty.

I can't handle dishonesty; I like integrity in people and for me, that's very important in a man.

What Australians expect of leaders is a bit of integrity.

I am not going to take a role because there's money. It might extend my checkbook, but not my integrity.

Honesty and integrity is an important part of our character, my character.