Quotes About Ethics

If we do have people appearing on the air live that are later found out to be Holocaust deniers or anything like that, we immediately put them onto a list of people who are forbidden from the air.

Hold onto power and you lose your moral compass.

Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.

Any responsible essayist or memoir writer who's writing about herself is not just saying, 'Here's what happened,' and opening up her diary. There needs to be consideration of other people's feelings.

It is not justice when you beat someone after tying their hands, but award a clean chit to another who openly confesses his crimes.

The right to be able to speak openly and confidentially to another is, at times, codified legally if not ethically.

There are not many companies in China that dare to say in public, 'We don't offer bribes', or companies that operate only by market rules.

I don't buy this thing that our industry is responsible for all the ills of the world. We have great people at JPMorgan Chase. We operate with a lot of rigor. Our clients are happy with us.

Under our rules of engagement, if I were ISIS, what I would do is collocate my headquarters next to a school or a hospital and ensure that there would be collateral damage. They know our rules of engagement as well as we do. They operate with impunity.

All business must have a social license to operate.

You will be a far more effective whistleblower if you operate within a legal framework.

Businesses operating in fragile or conflict-affected environments bear a responsibility to, at the very minimum, do no harm and avoid fuelling conflict or reinforcing fragility.

Hillary Clinton is excoriating Donald Trump over Trump University? The Clinton scandal at Laureate Education, a for-profit education chain of schools and colleges operating world-wide, including the United States, is much worse.

I had no sense of guilt. All during the course of the operation, I knew it was a job.

They who are of the opinion that Money will do everything, may very well be suspected to do everything for Money.

I only gave out my opinion that same sex marriage is against the law of God.

People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

Boxing is insane and, in my opinion, should be banned.

I don't know of anybody's political bias at CBS News. We try very hard to get any opinion that we have out of our stories, and most of our stories are balanced.

Money has no moral opinions.

Duty is what one expects from others, it is not what one does oneself.

It can never be necessary to do what is not honourable.

There is the same world for all of us, and good and evil, sin and innocence, go through it hand in hand.  To shut one's eyes to half of life that one may live securely is as though one blinded oneself that one might walk with more safety in a land of pit and precipice.

Oh, I hate the cheap severity of abstract ethics!