Quotes About Ethics

I wonder at what point do you stop doing what you think is right and you start doing what the majority of the American people want?

We, or I, cannot monitor everyone all of the time. If people want to do wrong, they will also try to hide it.

Some well-to-do parents may say, "I have a right to have as many children as I want because I can take care of them." That may be so, but can the Earth take care of them?

If the idea that my safety can only be enhanced by putting other people's privacy and safety in danger, then I don't want to be more safe.

Robots want to love us because the field of artificial intelligence has programmed robots to say they want to love us.

The way I would live my life is: never do something in real life that I would not want to write about in my Autobiography.

Consumers want a better world, not just better widgets.

A social contract is the way out of this dilemma for corporations that want to lead in the 21st century by showing consumers how seriously they take customer loyalty and goodwill.

I like people to be saints; but I want them to be first and superlatively honest men.

I get offered to do stuff where the money's nice but it's not something I want to do - I get offered a lot of commercials too.

Through our entire history we have become accustomed to pushing [animals] around in ways dictated by our own wants and needs without much regard for theirs.

The one thing you never want to do in politics is take the hit for someone else's misconduct - especially someone as erratic as President Trump.

Everything will come right if you are pure and sincere. We want hundreds like you bursting upon society and bringing new life and vigor of the spirit wherever they go.

Wouldn't--" Kel began to say, but the words stuck in her mouth. She swallowed and tried again. "Wouldn't it be well, not nice to flirt with somebody you don't want to fall in love with?

I don't believe in endorsing a product that you don't want to endorse.

It's insane, the internet. Totally craziness. Like a little cancer. People can just do whatever they want, say whatever they want, be totally anonymous. It's totally out of control.

What you deny to others will be denied to you, for the plain reason that you are always legislating for yourself; all your words and actions define the world you want to live in.

What society wants is a new motive, not a new cant.

People may talk about intellectual teaching, but what we principally want is the moral teaching.

My business is not reading your messages. I don't have a business doing that. And it's against my values to do that. I don't want to read your private stuff.

Who wants to be reputable? That's for golfers and tycoons with a sleazy past.

When you go into public service, you understand you're trading something. You want to feel good about what you do, but you're not going to make what people in private sector make.

Being honest doesn't mean you say whatever you want, wherever you want. It means that what you choose to say is true.

In the conduct of life we make use of deliberation to justify ourselves in doing what we want to do.