Quotes About Ethics

Continuing down a path where profit is king is unsustainable for our society, our health and our planet.

I saw someone lose $100 million in one night. When you watch that, as an owner-operator of a game, you realize that these numbers are incredibly unsustainable, incredibly unhealthy. So, I was not happy about this loss. It brought me no joy or adrenaline.

Telling people not to have children is unthinkable and inhumane.

We don't go into journalism to be popular. It is our job to seek the truth and put constant pressure on our leaders until we get answers.

I shall ask for the abolition for the punishment of death until I have the infallibility of human judgment demonstrated to me.

Here's my Golden Rule for a tarnished age: Be fair with others, but keep after them until they're fair with you.

Conscience is our unerring judge until we finally stifle it.

If a policy is wrongheaded, feckless and corrupt, I take it personally and consider it a moral obligation to sound off and not shut up until it's fixed.

Laws were changed and regulations repealed until an Enron can set sail without responsibility, supervision, or accountability.

At the end of the day, the Golden Rule is called the Golden Rule for a reason - do unto others as you would have done to you. In terms of commandments you could probably just do that one and you would be well off. If everybody could adhere to that one, we'd be OK, as long as a masochist wasn't in charge of people.

I'm going to tell you what my religion is. Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. Period. Terminato. Finito.

Sometimes I talk to religious people about my column or what I do, and I ask them to, you know, read 20 or 30 of them and then come tell me that the message at the heart of every column isn't, 'Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.' In every possible sense.

The most important thing is that you be a good person and you live by the golden rule of do unto others. If you live by that, that's all I care about.

Do unto others, then run.

The Golden Rule is to 'do unto others as you would have them do unto you.' Allegedly, America is a Christian country. This means that Christian America is following Jesus' Sermon on the Mount in a masochistic way.

Be thou incapable of change in that which is right, and men will rely upon thee. Establish unto thyself principles of action; and see that thou ever act according to them. First know that thy principles are just, and then be thou.

The people who did the collateralized mortgage obligations, sold them to pension funds, then sold them short, then bought credit default swap insurance on them, are just amazing. They are a law unto themselves.

It's simply untrue that religion provides the only framework for a universal morality.

I think it is quite untrue that it is standard journalistic practice to name the interviewer when quoting from an interview.

I would be lying if I said the journalism doesn't reflect my own choices as a reporter and a writer: what to say, what to emphasize, how to say it, what is true or untrue.

I must emphatically state that Cambridge Analytica does not condone or engage in entrapment, bribes or so-called 'honeytraps', and nor does it use untrue material for any purpose.

It's absolutely clear that whatever cruel and unusual punishments may - may mean with regard to future things, such as death by injection or the electric chair, it's clear that - that the death penalty, in and of itself, is not considered cruel and unusual punishment.

Capital punishment is neither cruel nor unusual.

Society's mores have changed, and what used to be thought not to be cruel and unusual now is thought to be cruel and unusual.