Quotes About Ethics

Those who willfully conceal assets overseas undermine the playing field for all taxpayers.

I don't think ethical people deal with intimidation as a method to achieve success. Undermining someone's self-esteem isn't a method to achieve success.

As smart technologies become more intrusive, they risk undermining our autonomy by suppressing behaviors that someone somewhere has deemed undesirable.

The Internet has played a major role in undermining public morality.

There are some lines in the sand you just do not cross. Undermining basic civil liberties by locking people up for long periods without charge is one of them.

I think integrity is underrated.

To understand the true quality of people, you must look into their minds, and examine their pursuits and aversions.

I can understand why people don't like fox hunting, but I really can't see why anyone other than vegans can object to game shooting.

The financial crisis of 2008-09 was in large part the result of the so-called 'success' of people who did not understand their fiduciary duty. This kind of 'success' is extremely harmful to all of society.

It's through the small things that we develop our moral imagination, so that we can understand the sufferings of others.

I don't understand when people are being greedy or mean, when they say who should get what, when they get control of someone else's life.

People who truly understand what is meant by self-reliance know they must live their lives by ethics rather than rules.

One can quite understand vegetarianism. One can quite understand meat-eating. But it is difficult to understand why a person who is a flesh-eater should object to one kind of flesh, namely cow's flesh. This is an anomaly which call for explanation.

I understand compliance and I understand the rules. Any meal, I wouldn't pay for everybody but I would at least pay my end.

If you're blindly loyal to me, then you're just acting like a crony of mine. If you say you admire me because of the principles for which I stand, I understand that, but then you also have the right to call me to the carpet when you think I'm falling short.

To reasoned people, almost everything is understandable, but evil is forever incomprehensible.

If you take a look at history, you will find that the understanding of what is good and evil has always existed before the individual religions. The religions were only invented by people afterwards, in order to express this idea.

We have got to change our ethics and our financial system and our whole way of understanding the world. It has to be a world in which people live rather than die; a sustainable world. It could be great.

All my books deal with the effect of intent upon action, how our understanding of good and evil depends heavily on context.

Quite early on, and certainly since I started writing, I found that philosophical questions occupied me more than any other kind. I hadn't really thought of them as being philosophical questions, but one rapidly comes to an understanding that philosophy's only really about two questions: 'What is true?' and 'What is good?'

For my own part, I abandon the ethics of duty to the Hegelian critique with no regrets; it would appear to me, indeed, to have been correctly characterized by Hegel as an abstract thought, as a thought of understanding.

The American people deserve to know what's on Trump's tax returns. And Trump must show that he truly embraces accountability and transparency and understands what it means to work on behalf of the public interest.

Civilizations can only be understood by those who are civilized.

When McGwire started the home run mania, attendance came back. The owners understood that the sudden spike in homers wasn't accidental. All baseball knew it. But baseball is run on money, and home runs meant money. Baseball turned a blind eye.