Quotes About Ethics

No less pertinent is that there is just something deeply and unquestionably wrong about killing an animal that is so sweetly and dopily unassuming as a moose. I could have slain this one with a slingshot, with a rock or stick—with a folded newspaper, I'd almost bet.

He [Walter Cronkite] was also a profoundly good man. I don't think we should lose sight of that. All those professional gifts emanated from a very good core and that's something that's beyond training. It's who he was.

Sooner or later, every president faces decisions in which the right choice is bad politics, at least in the short term. If the stakes are high, you have to do what you think is right and hope the political tide will turn. It's the job you promised to do.

God, I sound like an ass. Worse yet, I sound like a lawyer.

divested all my direct holdings in oil and gas companies, as did the trust that manages the Gates Foundation's endowment. (I hadn't had money in coal companies in several years.)

And it's a huge boon for animal welfare whenever fewer livestock are being kept in small cages.

Leaders with principles are less likely to get bullied or pushed around because they can draw clear lines in the sand…The softest pillow is a clear conscience. —Narayana Murthy, founder and CEO, Infosys

True North is the internal compass that guides you successfully through life.

Making heroes out of celebrity CEOs is at the heart of the crisis in corporate leadership.

Character is not what we have done, but rather who we are.

New Rule: If you can force a woman to look at a sonogram—to see what will happen if she has an abortion—you also have to let her see a crying baby, a bratty five-year-old, and a surly teenager to see what will happen if she doesn't. And you have to tell her it costs $204,000 to raise it until it turns eighteen, in 2028, where it will be a slave to the Chinese, in a radioactive world with no animals, fish, or plants.

Not doing anything is doing something and choosing to look away is a passive but no less mortal sin.

Isn't it time we asked ourselves, are we willing to accept any behavior codified within religious or cultural practice? Is there no line to be drawn? If honor killings are okay, then why not virgin sacrifices or cannibalism or sex with children outside the church? We have perversely taken our notion of tolerance to such extremes that we've become tolerant of intolerance.

The point is, a leader does what he thinks is right, not what he thinks the popular thing is.

You call for a constitutional amendment banning abortion? We call for federally-funded, partial-birth abortions at the drive-through at McDonald's.

Forget the Syria debate; we need a debate on why we are always debating on whether to bomb someone. Because we're starting to look not so much like the world's police men but more like George Zimmerman. Itching to use force and then pretending it's because we had no choice.

Courage is what makes us do the right thing even when nobody else is doing it.

HOBBES: Virtue needs some cheaper thrills.

Specifically, I'd like to debate whether cannibalism ought to be grounds for leniency in murders, since it's less wasteful.

We have to harden our hearts and think of the greater good. The plan is, our exposure to her is supposed to purify us. But it seems more like her exposure to us is diminishing her.

No one is responsible, nobody is to blame... Either all are guilty or none...

The Code of the West Say what you want about me, but leave the horse I rode in on out of it.

Great players are determined by their talent, desire and willingness to play by the code.

Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?