Quotes About Ethics

That's really what's kept me at 'TYT' even though I've gotten offers where I'd make a lot more money working at other media outlets: There's a value in making sure we inform our audience so they're responsible members of the democratic process. To me, that's more valuable than ratings or money or anything else you can get at these other networks.

I don't think equality is intrinsically valuable, meaning in and of itself. I'm not against inequality... if Bill Gates gets another hundred million dollars, it's no skin off my nose.

It makes me upset, if not angry, when people assume that there can be no morality without a religious framework. If there's a moral framework without all that religious stuff, it's more valuable.

Data is valuable, so let's be mindful of how we're sharing it.

Integrity is essential and irreplaceable. It is the most valuable asset for a person, a company, or a society seeking to build and progress.

National honor is the national property of the highest value.

We should not need to be reminded of the value of human life.

We do not hate as long as we still attach a lesser value, but only when we attach an equal or a greater value.

Causal analysis provides absolutely no value judgment, and a value judgment is absolutely not a causal explanation.

Confidentiality is an ancient and well-warranted social value.

Once you get people's attention, you have a greater responsibility to tell them something of value.

I wear two hats. The one is business and increasing my shareholders' value; the other is social responsibility.

If you pay a child a dollar to read a book, as some schools have tried, you not only create an expectation that reading makes you money, you also run the risk of depriving the child for ever of the value of it. Markets are not innocent.

There is no higher value in our society than integrity.

What you believe, what you value, how you live, matters.

I'm not so in love with material things that I'll do anything for money. That allows me the luxury of doing things of value.

Our responsibility is to maximise shareholder value, and if that means we can make short-term investment where we can maximise short-term value, we can do that.

Evil, by definition, is that which endangers the good, and the good is what we perceive as a value.

Equating brutality and despotism with leadership is not an American value.

If society becomes comfortable with cloning and sees value in true human diversity, then the whole Neanderthal creature itself could be cloned by a surrogate mother chimp - or by an extremely adventurous female human.

No matter what product or service your company offers, people have a way of finding out if you are genuinely providing value.

I value peace when it is not bought at the price of fundamental decencies.

Cruelty is not a literary value.

My thesis topic was 'The value of a human life.' I asked people a question: 'Suppose you had some risk, a one in a thousand risk of dying - how much would you pay to eliminate it?'