Quotes About Ethics

One thing I know, and any female presenters will know this, is don't reveal any body part or bend over because freaks will freeze-frame it and put it on their nasty messageboards.

I wanted to put the national interest before my personal interests.

Trump is beset by clear and alarming conflicts between his international business concerns and the national interest.

I care more about my economy, national security, and fiscal conservatism than I do about what other women do with their bodies. It's not my place, and I don't believe it's the government's place, to make such decisions.

A player should be disparaged if he gives less than his all, if he doesn't give 100%, no matter what shirt he's wearing. Whether it's your national team, your club, or little league. Yes, there are friendly matches, recreational ones, and so on, but sport in its essence is about giving your best.

A coach - any coach, not just a national team coach - should try to be exemplary. And a national team manager even more so.

Increasingly, corporate nationality is whatever a corporation decides it is.

Bombing the Murrah Federal Building was morally and strategically equivalent to the U.S. hitting a government building in Serbia, Iraq, or other nations.

Do not use that foreign word 'ideals.' We have that excellent native word 'lies.'

Nothing leads to good that is not natural.

The difficulty of looking at a system like natural selection if you have any sort of moral sense yourself, is almost what makes it beautiful.

I don't think I'm naturally a good person. I think some people have an innate goodness to them, and I am sort of proud of the fact that I kind of keep myself in check, probably because I have awesome parents.

I'm not naturally manipulative.

Guilt. It comes naturally to me as a Jew and a Liberal.

We are naturally moral beings, but our environments can enhance - or, sadly, degrade - this innate moral sense.

If you violate Nature's laws you are your own prosecuting attorney, judge, jury, and hangman.

Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices.

55 And it is the religion of capitalism, the maniacal quest for wealth at the expense of others, that turns human beings into beasts of prey.

The outcome depends on how successful the cheating is. And one of the consequences of this is that economists are not in a strong position to tell society what to do.

Many ideas, once held to be true, have come to be regarded as wrong and evil," Berkman wrote. Thus the ideas of the divine right of kings, of slavery and serfdom. There was a time when the whole world believed those institutions to be right, just, and unchangeable.

But grabbing what you can, as John Ruskin said, isn't any less wicked when you grab it with the power of your brains than with the power of your fists.

I never been one to favor laws.

Karma is Tao's response to the sum of your actions.

La vertu de ren, que l'on traduit par « humanité », est centrale dans la morale confucéenne.