Quotes About Ethics

I want to die a slave to principles. Not to men.

Freedom is not the right to do what we want, but what we ought

The profession of journalism ought to be about telling people what they need to know - not what they want to know.

Freedom is not the ability to do anything we want, whenever we want. Rather, FREEDOM is the ability to live responsibly the truth of our relationship with God and with one another.

Be the kind of person that you want people to think you are.

One must beware of ministers who can do nothing without money, and those who want to do everything with money.

I don't care if you want to hunt, I don't care if you think it's your right. I say, sorry, you are not allowed to own a gun, and if you do own a gun I think you should go to prison.

If peace can only come through killing someone, then I don't want it.

A gentleman is someone who does not what he wants to do, but what he should do.

It's nice to be known as a good player. But I want to be known as a good person, too.

Our job is to give people not what they want, but what we decide they ought to have.

I don't represent large corporations and I don't want their money.

I don't expect to win enough games to be put on NCAA probation. I just want to win enough to warrant an investigation.

Do what is right, not what you think the high headquarters wants or what you think will make you look good.

If you go into a room of 100-plus people, and you want to be the prince of darkness, you can be it. But I don't operate in the dark, I operate in the light.

How would we feel if you could pay extra to smoke on airplanes? When we decide something is a bad idea in general for society, we don't want the rich to be able to buy their way out of it.

Customers want good value, but they care more than ever how food and clothing products are made.

Just because people want to eat the burger doesn't mean they want to meet the cow.

In the ordinary moral universe, the good will do the best they can, the worst will do the worst they can, but if you want to make good people do wicked things, you'll need religion.

Real journalism is publishing something that somebody else does not want published - the rest is just public relations.

Personal integrity is important, not because it gets us what we want, but because it helps us be what we want.

It takes time and trouble to persuade ourselves that the things we want to do are the things we ought to do.

I have a natural right to do whatever I want with my body as long as it doesn't affect anybody else or any other property.

Justice as fairness provides what we want.