Quotes About Ethics

Do not have evil-doers for friends, do not have low people for friends : have virtuous people for friends, have for friends the best of men.

There are but few saints amongst scientists, as among other men, but truth itself is a goal comparable with sanctity.

Our virtues and vices couple with one another, and get children that resemble both their parents.

They who are of the opinion that Money will do everything, may very well be suspected to do everything for Money.

Farming with live animals is a 7 day a week, legal form of slavery.

Power and honour don't share the same bed,

Americans, being a moral people, want their foreign policy to reflect the values we espouse as a nation. But Americans, being a practical people, also want their foreign policy to be effective.

As an anonymous participant in financial markets, I never had to weigh the social consequences of my actions…. I felt justified in ignoring them on the grounds that I was playing by the rules.

I'm not doing my philanthropic work, out of any kind of guilt, or any need to create good public relations. I'm doing it because I can afford to do it, and I believe in it.

What is there to say? Risk taking is painful. Either you are willing to bear the pain yourself or you try to pass it on to others. Anyone who is in a risk taking business but cannot face the consequences is no good.

We know now that a man can read Goethe or Rilke in the evening, that he can play Bach and Schubert, and go to his day's work at Auschwitz in the morning.

We know that a man can read Goethe or Rilke in the evening, that he can play Bach and Schubert, and go to his day's work at Auschwitz in the morning.

We know now that a man can read Goethe or Rilke in the evening, that he can play Bach and Schubert, and go to his day's work at Auschwitz in the morning.

You know, at the end of the day, the only thing you have is trust and honor in this world. That's all you have. All you have is your reputation built on trust and your personal honor. When you don't have that anymore, well, you know, there you go. Trust was broken.

Leadership to me means duty, honor, country. It means character, and it means listening from time to time.

Murdering the innocent to advance an ideology is wrong every time everywhere

The lips that touch liquor must never touch mine!

The concept of war crimes is an American invention.

Destroying human life in the hopes of saving human life is not ethical...

The best ethics course is to handcuff one of the bastards.

Few people have the virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

It is impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible.

Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.

Few men have virtue enough to withstand the highest bidder.