Quotes About Ethics

We're making a lot of changes at Gap Inc., but as our Social Responsibility Report demonstrates, doing business the right way is still extremely important to us.

Actors have a social responsibility.

I've always believed that our public actions need to take account of our social responsibility.

Football generates a lot of money, but there has to be a social responsibility that goes with that. It can positively affect people's lives.

It is not secret here in Congress we have not had the discipline in many instances to keep our hands out of the cookie jar of Social Security. Now to stop this I propose that in the future that Congress cannot get its hands on the money in the first place.

Cynically but accurately put, Americans oppose public intervention or regulation if it helps others, but favor it if it helps them - take social security, disaster relief, public works projects, for example.

I do a lot of social service and I don't boast about it. I believe that if you give with one hand, the other hand shouldn't know of it. I don't believe in cheap publicity.

Social work and politics never go together although the intention behind politics is social work.

I don't want to associate my social work with Infosys, money, etc.

Socialism also brings us up against the hard rock of eugenic fact which, if we neglect it, will dash our most beautiful social construction to fragments.

You shouldn't go around the world behaving ruthlessly when you don't have to. Sometimes you do have to. There is only so much pie to go around. If you're going to take more than your fair share of pie, as socialists would look at it, then someone else is not getting his. That means you've got to take it away from them.

There is always risk involved. You can't be a capitalist only when there are investment profits but then a socialist when you experience losses.

Design, if it is to be ecologically responsible and socially responsive, must be revolutionary and radical.

Socially conscious brands engender more loyalty.

It is morally, politically and socially wrong for business as business or labor as labor to participate directly in politics.

Our relationship to the computer is much like our relationship to the car: rich, complex, socially messy.

The marketing business has been just about promoting things, but we don't believe that anymore. There has to be a societal component, too.

Everything good and bad about technology would be magnified by implanting it deep in brains. Is the risk of brain-hacking outweighed by the societal benefits of faster, deeper communication, and the ability to augment our own intelligence?

Every technology company should have a red button somewhere in the headquarters where, if they realize they've caused more societal harm than they expected and done more harm than good, they press the button, and the company dissolves instantly.

I think a lot of societal good is already being done with facial recognition technology.

Just as a doctor is important for saving lives, every IAS officer is important for societal development; he's like a messenger sent by God to serve the public.

The moral disapprobation of society has an impact on behavior in societies.

Evil societies always kill their consciences.

Societies depend on agreed rules.