Quotes About Ethics

I'd need to praise each of the columnists at The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, and The Guardian, who've worked tirelessly to avoid facts that might contradict their narratives.

Newsrooms are now filled with progressive activists who bend the truth, as opposed to old-school professionals who feel a duty to both themselves and their audience.

Although the media has historically always been left-leaning, we've abandoned our pretense—or at least the effort—to be objective today. We've become political activists, and some could argue propagandists.

The only way we can eradicate human behavior is to eradicate humans, and that strikes me as pretty extreme.

I have never understood why it is 'greed' to want to keep the money you've earned, but not greed to want to take somebody else's money.

You're not gonna believe this, but generally speaking, good guys follow rules while bad guys don't.

As the old saying goes, if you have integrity, nothing else matters. But if you don't have integrity, nothing else matters.

Interpreting De Waal in religious terms, I would argue that morality does not amount to a codified set of behaviour dictated by a God 'out there', but is an instinctive response to 'that of God' (as the Quakers put it) within each of us.

no one can do an injury to you without doing an injury to themselves.

There is absolutely nothing sacred about freedom of information," he said, "when it can be used to undermine social progress.

all the money in the world won't make you happy if what you do with it conflicts with your values.

Money is great to have, but all the money in the world won't make you happy if what you do with it conflicts with your values.

In some ways, it was far easier to be bad than good. When you're bad, you don't care what happens to anyone other than yourself. When you're trying to do god, you have to worry about everyone.

Why do men like you do the job you do? It can't be for the medals. And it's certainly not the money." Stone said nothing. -"Why then? God and country?" -"Both simpler and more complex, Mr. President." -"What then?" -"So I can look at myself in the mirror.

Montgomery said, "I thought there were, like, laws against that kind of stuff?" "But if you have enough money, the laws don't apply to you

with the way the world is now, we all have to think about things beyond our lifetime. Beyond our children's lifetime, in fact. It's our right. It's our duty, my good friend told me.

If Jackson had learned one thing over the years it was that nothing, absolutely nothing, was above corruption so long as human beings were involved, because, in truth, most people were not above the lure of the dollar or other material entitlements.

Meaning evil only wins—" "—when good men and women do nothing.

Was revenge always wrong? Was righting an injustice outside the law never condonable?

Most of what they do is legal because they paid off the lawmakers to make it legal. But some of it's not. But they got money and jobs and lawyers and lobbyists and politicians in their pockets, and so nobody touches them. Same with the good folks at the Rebel Yell.

I guess it comes down to greed. You don't pay folks, you make more money. That and thinking one race wasn't as good as another.

lawyer," Caleb

supremely noble act in a world more and more devoid of anything remotely virtuous.

It doesn't take much for civilized people to become animals.