Quotes About Ethics

All work and no plagiarism makes for dull sermons!

People are not born bastards. They have to work at it.

You who make the laws, the vices and the virtues of the people will be your work.

I think the entire pharmaceutical industry has a lot of work to do to restore public trust.

A task becomes a duty from the moment you suspect it to be an essential part of that integrity which alone entitles a man to assume responsibility.

Yeah, it's unfair that you can get judged by something you didn't do, but it's also unfair that you can inherit money that you didn't work for.

One thing I hope I'll never be is drunk with my own power. And anybody who says I am will never work in this town again.

I think leadership is more than being able to cross the t's and dot the i's. It's about character and integrity and work ethic.

Influence comes out of the work that you've done and the things you've stood for. Influence and power shouldn't be given to just anybody who wants them.

If you're not going to do your job, get out of here. Don't mess up my work. This is how I feed my family.

Working out what it would take to program goodness into a robot shows not only how much machinery it takes to be good but how slippery the concept of goodness is to start with.

Show respect for everyone who works for a living, regardless of how trivial their job.

Vanity asks, is it popular? Politics ask, will it work? But conscience and morality ask, is it right?

Every time a man expects, as he says, his money to work for him, he is expecting other people to work for him.

Justice must always question itself, just as society can exist only by means of the work it does on itself and on its institutions.

The work of art may have a moral effect, but to demand moral purpose from the artist is to make him ruin his work.

It does take a little work to be a vegetarian but it's so worth it, oh it's so worth it!

Honesty is the precondition for genuine scientific and scholarly work.

It seems to me that responsiveness is a better source for understanding what moral claims are and how they work upon us.

The path of duty lies in what is near, and men seek for it in what is remote; the work of duty lies in what is easy, and men seek for it in what is difficult.

You don't luck into integrity. You work at it.

In poor countries, officials receive explicit bribes; in D.C. they get the sophisticated, implicit, unspoken promise to work for large corporations

If you are trying to balance the scales of justice and equality in all your work relationships, you're going to come up short.

the most comfortable characteristic of the period [1775-1825], and the one which incites our deepest envy, is the universal willingness to accept a good purpose as a substitute for good work.