Quotes About Ethics

The United Nations was not set up to be a reformatory. It was assumed that you would be good before you got in and not that being in would make you good.

However, if the religions in essence merely repeat statements from the United Nations Human Rights Declaration, such a Declaration becomes superfluous; an ethic is more than rights.

I would never play any role in anything that involves the United Nations for obvious reasons.

I cheated at the Model United Nations when I was 13 and had to get up and apologise in front of the whole conference.

If I was President of the United States, I'd rather be right than interesting. If I was CEO of a company, I'd rather be right than interesting. But I'm a journalist - what journalist would rather be right than interesting?

I have not broken the laws of the United States or the laws of the Dominican Republic.

I'm against war with the United States. But I am an officer of the Imperial Navy and a subject of His Majesty the Emperor.

The death penalty is being applied in the United States as a fatal lottery.

The notion that employees and companies have a social contract with each other that goes beyond a paycheck has largely vanished in United States business.

If torture is going to be administered as a last resort in the ticking-bomb case, to save enormous numbers of lives, it ought to be done openly, with accountability, with approval by the president of the United States or by a Supreme Court justice.

You're not supposed to go into business with the sole purpose of putting your neighbor out of business. This is not the United States of Corporate America.

There should be some civility when it comes to being president of the United States.

I believe that homosexual acts between individuals are immoral and that we should not condone immoral acts. I do not believe that the Armed Forces of the United States are well served by a saying through our policies that it's OK to be immoral in any way.

The United States, of course, in the late 19th century was extraordinarily corrupt.

I was personally opposed to the death penalty, and yet I think I have probably asked for the death penalty more than most people in the United States.

I said to myself, where are we living? In the United States of America where you're innocent until proven guilty, or Nazi Germany with the Gestapo calling?

The Mormon belief system unites curiously American pairs of opposites. A relish for the dog-eat-dog practices of the marketplace goes hand in hand with the stern obligation to 'help thy neighbor.'

All universal moral principles are idle fancies.

Many other countries have already banned human cloning, and there are efforts at the UN to make such a ban universal.

We Indians are Latin America's moral reserve. We act according to a universal law that consists of three basic principles: do not steal, do not lie and do not be idle.

Obligations may be universal or particular.

It's important for American soldiers to be culturally sensitive when deployed in foreign countries. But it's just as important for the U.S. never to renounce the most fundamental American values, which, after all, are also universal values.

The currency of universal values make brands innately sharable.

Cultural values are, in themselves, neutral as well as universal, and so much depends on how individuals or ethnic groups use them. Values are influenced by so many factors such as geography, climate, religion, the economy and technology.