Quotes About Ethics

What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?

Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable.

It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of the nation.

The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim.

I am certainly an ought and not a must.

If movies are causing moral decay, then crime ought to be going up, but crime is going down.

I couldn't do that as attorney general. Why? Because they are my clients. You can't say they're not doing what they ought to be doing when you are the attorney general.

People who act like angels ought to have angels to deal with.

The law, in our case, seems to make the right; and the very reverse ought to be done - the right should make the law.

I don't think one ought to bring a clearly disabled child into the world.

Dreams are the touchstones of our character.

We have too much respect for our father to make a Bush Beer or write books or do anything that's self-serving. I know all of us will avoid any appearance of a conflict of interest with the government and bend over backward to stay out of the news.

Integrity is critical to our lives - and to our dreams of achievement. We must remember that without integrity, nothing else matters and that with integrity, nothing else matters.

Even in this glowering age, morality animates our lives with meaning.

We do not let our music get used in commercials for commercial products.

A generation of Earth Days has conditioned millions of us to be green in our homes yet we must apply the same ethic to our politics if we want to save our planet and our democracy.

If changing our world is playing God, it is just one more way in which God made us in His image.

I'd worked for, during one period, for a PR firm, and for a while Rock Hudson was a client of ours, so I knew him well, and I knew when he had AIDS, that he had AIDS, but I would not write about that.

We follow highest level of corporate governance, which is in line with a global company like ours.

We are selfish when we are exclusively or predominantly concerned with the good for ourselves. We are altruistic when we are exclusively or predominantly concerned with the good of others.

Most men think graft a sporadic evil, breaking out here and there, with no connection between outbreaks. I shared the same opinion, but very soon I discovered that the graft in the cities always leads to the graft in the State.

The logical outcome of evolution is that it makes monsters. We turn into monsters because evolution takes away everything that makes us human in the sense of our moral accountability, our moral absolutes, and our idea of being distinct from the animal kingdom.

I think the way you build a company for the future has to include social impact; it has to be part of the fabric of your company. I think when you do that, you invariably end up with much better outcomes, even in the short-term.

It seemed to me to be entirely un-kosher, if that's a word, to try to put a debate about war right in front of the midterm to try to affect the midterm outcomes.