Quotes About Ethics

If you look within the United States, religion seems to make you a better person. Yet atheist societies do very well - better, in many ways, than devout ones.

Our duty as journalists is to use our clarity - and our imagination - to build hope in the societies in which we work. Our duty is to keep holding power to account, and to fight for press freedom around the world.

All societies make necessary moral distinctions between high crimes and misdemeanors, mortal and lesser sins.

Society has always to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.

People are going to behave however the social norms permit, and beyond that.

In just about every area of society, there's nothing more important than ethics.

Everyone has to have a sense of duty. A duty to society, to their family. I mean, you name it.

We have a society now where obedience to the law is really a choice, an option only.

The exercise of natural rights has no limits but such as will ensure their enjoyment to other members of society.

Individual rights are the means of subordinating society to moral law.

Football has an important role to play in society. Players should have a sense of social responsibility, have a moral dimension to them which shows up in good conduct.

Attempts to construct an ethic from the rules of evolution, or from psychology and sociology, end up being simply inadequate.

When I first became involved with PETA, it was on an 'issue-by-issue' basis - they interviewed me in my old apartment about animal abuse in the circus as I sat on a leather sofa.

There's no pillow as soft as a clear conscience.

Soft playing destroys the integrity of the game of poker, and it's wrong - flat out wrong.

High rank and soft manners may not always belong to a true heart.

No politician after the Nixon-Agnew years would say, 'I was against the death penalty,' because they replaced 'soft on communism' with 'soft on crime.' You just see the horror of this thing.

I did a soft drink ad some time back. Later, a mother came to me and said that her child started consuming more of that drink after seeing my ad. It made me measure my actions.

The unforgivable crime is soft hitting. Do not hit at all if it can be avoided; but never hit softly.

I don't think of myself as a hard man, but other people may think otherwise. You know you have obligations to do the best you can for people, for your job, for your shareholders... it all has to be balanced between the hardness and the softness.

Proprietary software is an injustice.

There is a strong movement towards increased accountability for software developers and software development organizations.

The only real mystery in the stories of political plagiarism is its durability in an age of Turnitin and other scanning software that can protect an author from his own mistakes, intentional or otherwise.

Software and digital devices are imbued with the values of their creators.