Quotes About Ethics

A just person is one who is conformed and transformed into justice.

All wrong-doing arises because of mind. If mind is transformed can wrong-doing remain?

It means, people who are in high and responsible positions, if they go against righteousness, righteousness itself will get transformed into a destroyer.

Green business is not about tie-dyed T-shirts. It's about transforming the industrial system itself into one that looks at all the connections.

Politicians themselves, every one of us, has a responsibility to make sure that we send out a message that it is a good place to work, that it is positive, that you are transforming people's lives.

The issue of equal rights for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender individuals has vexed politicians for decades. I have my own cloudy history with the issue, having supported a law in Mississippi that made it illegal for LGBT couples to adopt children. I believed at the time this was a principled position based on my faith.

Justice prevails over transgression when she comes to the end of the race.

I've always written about adultery because it raises the question of transgression and trouble.

He's my father married to my sister. That makes me his son and his brother-in-law. That is such a moral transgression... I cannot see him. I cannot have a relationship with my father and be morally consistent. I lived with all these adopted children, so they are my family. To say Soon-Yi was not my sister is an insult to all adopted children.

I think character is permanent, and issues are transient.

One of the things in Obamacare is that for the elderly, is every five years, you must have end-of-year counseling. Translation, 'suicide counseling.'

We've never lived in an environment in which it has been so easy to capture information and share it. That fact that it is digital and easy to transmit exacerbates that. I don't know that we know yet what social norms we wish to adopt.

It is not just family that must transmit values, but school also.

Transparency increases credibility and accountability.

The Office of Congressional Ethics was created to provide more transparency in the House of Representatives. It was a commendable goal.

Transparency is so important in business.

What happens to a private company that comes out with a quarterly report and an annual report? It gives transparency. It talks of basic issues of governance and transactions with related parties.

I don't claim to be a journalist. I hold myself to higher standards of transparency and disclosure.

Public officials insult our intelligence and our goodwill when they paint rosy pictures about budgets, jobs, bipartisanship, and transparency, and alter their positions on issues simply to keep collecting their paycheck by never disagreeing or disappointing anyone.

We are fighting corruption and all illegal activities and building a culture of transparency and ethical governance.

I believe that transparency is the solution to our problem on corruption.

Transparency is one of our core principles, We treat the food with integrity. We don't commodify it beyond recognition.

We need to ban outside income for elected officials. Transparency alone is not enough; it doesn't solve the problem of creating outside dependencies.

Our aim is to set some kind of benchmark and standards for transparency and governance in private philanthropy.