Quotes About Ethics

All I know is, he's a good kid, and he's done right all his life. And he always treats other people right.

It is no longer enough to have a good product. A company's purpose and the way it treats its employees and the global community to which it belongs is also of great importance.

Experts are human, and humans respond to incentives. How any given expert treats you, therefore, will depend on how that expert's incentives are set up.

I always felt the true test of a man's character is how he treats people he can't use.

It is a huge responsibility to make sure your son never ever treats anyone wrong.

I left Udemy on good terms; I didn't cause trouble. It paid off; I kept a good reputation and Udemy treats me well.

The latest revelation - from no Mount Sinai, Sermon on the Mount or Bo tree - is the outcry of mute things themselves that we must heed by curbing our powers over creation, lest we perish together on a wasteland of what that creation once was.

A potential person is not a person, any more than an acorn is an oak tree. I don't think women should have to give birth just because a sperm met an egg.

A person should not be too honest. Straight trees are cut first and honest people are screwed first.

Too many trees are killed to print the words of people who may not have all that much to say, and authors and journalists are equally culpable in this regard.

I don't believe in carbon offsetting. Planting 60 trees so you don't have to say your Hail Marys that night? It's a crock.

I will not accept a role just because a big hero stars in it. I am not here to merely dance, run around trees, and be a glam doll.

I will not tolerate killing of trees in the dead of the night.

If you read my books, especially the Star Trek books and the Quest for Tomorrow books, you'll see in them the core theme of the basic humanistic questions that Star Trek asked.

'Star Trek' is notorious for looting the more thoughtful work of writers for their striking effects, leaving behind most of the thought and subtlety.

'Star Trek' works for me because it deals with the petty issues of humankind.

If God is just, I tremble for my country.

Where there are laws, he who has not broken them need not tremble.

It takes tremendous discipline to control the influence, the power you have over other people's lives.

Law enforcement officers are entrusted with a tremendous responsibility; that is why we hold them to such a high standard. With that said, there are a small number of officers who have not lived up to that standard.

A man's work and the conditions under which it is performed are tremendous factors in determining his character.

As we look around, it's very clear that in this world people do outrageous things to one another all of the time. It's not that these qualities or actions make us bad people, but they bring tremendous suffering if we don't know how to work with them.

Whenever you're telling a story about true-life events and about real people, there's a tremendous responsibility-slash-burden to get it right.

Top technologists have a tremendous capacity - and, therefore, a tremendous responsibility - to build things that make a positive impact on the world.