Quotes About Ethics

All people work for money. Principled people work for life.

Fair play is always expected in any game. Any job you work in is a game too.

Journalism can be expressed in many ways. Broadcasting is not a medium to denigrate anyone. I was part of journalism sometime ago. My purpose of living still remain unchanged -- to stay upright and balanced.

Long time ago, there is a known gentleman named Robin Hood being chased because of stealing for a good cause. There is no more 'Robin Hoods' at the present time, but the good cause is still chasing for gentlemen to come out.

Everyone wants to be a good example to everybody. If you can't be one, at least try not to be a disgrace to humanity.

Honesty is a not a code word but a lifestyle.

Honesty is dependent on priorities.

People lie and cheat whenever and wherever there are opportunities. And from these opportunities supervenes recidivism.

Religion is what you do and what you are.

Respect is like a religion. It is more than just a lifestyle. You may live with it, or die without it.

The best choice you can make for yourself is to socialize with lesser evil.

The human race is not defined by the language that we speak, but by the actions that come from the human mind.

There are no losers in the world of honorable men.

There is no password for a clear conscience.

Too much rights do not make everybody right.

You may not be known or popular all over the world, but by doing honorable acts and decent gestures each day you are already famous.

There is no such thing as moral standards if you don't believe in morality.

It takes tremendous discipline to control the influence, the power you have over other people's lives.

Nothing wrong with shooting...as long as the right people get shot.

You cut up a thing that's alive and beautiful to find out how it's alive and why it's beautiful, and before you know it, it's neither of those things, and you're standing there with blood on your face and tears in your sight and only the terrible ache of guilt to show for it.

One man's pornography is another man's theology.

Freedom is not the greatest thing; how we decide to use our freedom is the greatest thing.

All intellectual tendencies are corrupted when they consort with power.

As the late Edward W Said wrote after the attack on the World Trade Center, 'Western humanism is not enough: we need a universal humanism.' I agree with that. The question is how to get it, and my own view is that it can't be had unless we raise our demands on ourselves a long way beyond decorating our lives with enough cultivation to make the pursuit of ambition look civilized.