Quotes About Ethics

The power to remove an individual from office is reserved for the greatest betrayals of public trust, not just because you disagree with someone.

Fiduciaries are people who hold legal obligations of trust, like a trustee of a trust. A trustee must act in the beneficiary's best interests and not his own. If the trustee fails to do that, the trustee can be removed, even if what the trustee has done is not a crime.

If I had chosen the populist course, it would have been a breach of the trust placed in me by the people.

I would trust citizen journalism as much as I would trust citizen surgery.

Strange bonds of trust and self-deception tend to grow between journalists and their subjects.

For this equilibrium now in sight, let us trust that mankind, as it has occurred in the greatest periods of its past, will find for itself a new code of ethics, common to all, made of tolerance, of courage, and of faith in the Spirit of men.

Ethics reform is about restoring the public trust. When that is in doubt, nothing is more important than restoring it.

I often say that shareholders should feel very responsible for how responsive corporations are to the public trust.

If you're honest about things, people will trust you, even if you're a bad guy. That says something about where we are and who we are as people.

Reporters used to be blue-collar; at the Globe now, it's practically required that you have a trust fund.

We understand that you can't play all 82, trust me, with injuries and all that. But if you're feeling OK - a lot of people have been banged up, but if you're feeling OK, then you should play. That's what you get paid for. That's what fans deserve. The fans definitely deserve that.

Any sentient being knows that pharmaceutical companies are predatory and not to be trusted.

If its not done ethically, advertising won't be trusted. If consumers don't trust it, advertising is pointless.

The U.S. intelligence community is in a very poor position to be trusted with protecting civil liberties while engaging in intelligence work.

Stealing is stealing. I would hope that a federal employee that engages in theft of trusting travelers would be disciplined more than with just a letter.

When a man becomes a Christian, he becomes industrious, trustworthy and prosperous. Now, if that man, when he gets all he can and saves all he can, does not give all he can, I have more hope for Judas Iscariot than for that man!

The object of the superior man is truth.

Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.

Learn what is true in order to do what is right.

Justice is truth in action.

In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same.

I have never seasoned a truth with the sauce of a lie in order to digest it more easily.

I feel a responsibility for telling the truth.

It's my job as a reporter to not be about the business of making friends or enemies but just be in the tireless pursuit of truth.