Quotes About Ethics

Business must go on reiterating its absolute commitment to embedding human rights in all it does, driving industry change through collaboration with governments, international organizations, and each other.

You don't want to go around willy-nilly suing news organizations. That's probably self-defeating.

Because appearing to be fair is part of being fair, most mainstream news organizations discourage marching for causes, displaying political bumper stickers or giving cash to candidates.

I'm not a fan of Fox News. They do more to pervert the truth in this country than most organizations that I know of.

If money was my only motivation, I would organize myself differently.

Books and theater were the way I understood the world and also the way I organized my sense of morality, of how to live a good life.

In terms of justice, the most important thing is not to be part of organized crime.

We also have issue oriented storylines which are an examination of an issue, be it ethical or social.

You don't like to be lied to, by your friends or in your business dealings. So why would you want to be lied to when it comes to the origin of life or the fate of the planet?

Cloning is great. If God made the original, then making copies should be fine.

Always felt like I did things right, always felt like I did things for the community and did everything well in New Orleans.

Bad conduct soils the finest ornament more than filth.

This Oscar Pistorius business is interesting. There is this cult of carrying lots of guns and being ready to shoot somebody. There were people I knew had guns and carried them openly around Johannesburg. It is frowned on now to carry a gun, but Pistorius and co. got away with it.

You cannot contract to sell a baby. If they legalize this contract they may soon start bringing poor women in from other countries just to be breeders.

We should treat other countries the way we want to be treated.

You see a lot of managers who are working and yet are already talking about other countries and other teams. But that's not for me.

We are often deterred from crime by the disgrace of others.

Every duty is a charge, but the charge of oneself is the root of all others.

Do not do to others what you would not have them do to you.

I have to live for others and not for myself: that's middle-class morality.

Science, as everyone knows, is responsible, moderate, unsentimental, and otherwise good.

There should be no effort, consciously or otherwise, that will lead to the erosion of institutional credibility and authority.

If the law is a bad law, there is always the contingent right to take action that you would not otherwise take.

Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought.