Quotes About Ethics

My own field, the prevention of genetic disorders in babies, has been possible only because of humane work on animals.

Wickedness may prosper for awhile, but in the long run, he that sets all the knaves at work will pay them.

People don't understand what term "selling out" means. To me selling out means if I were to stop doing this and go work for McDonald's then I would sell out.

If you wrote something, you deserve to get paid and recognized for your work. No one should take a bow with another man's hat.

I don't plan on selling out. I mean, it's nice to get a dinner reservation ahead of other people, but when it comes down to it, the most important thing to me is the actual work.

One way to work the system is to work the system. The other way is to refuse to work it.

A company and leaders of the company have the responsibility of the precious lives of all the human beings that work there.

Ill-gotten gains work evil.

Greatness is a matter of a moment. Goodness is the work of a lifetime.

To live with integrity in an unjust society we must work for justice. To walk with integrity through a landscape strewn with beer cans, we must stop and pick them up.

I just was non-political and didn't see myself as a person who could push people around, make their decision, you know, and tell them how lousy their work was.

We don't have to be that greedy generation that just continued to take down the underpinnings of what makes the planet work in our favor.

If I work on a movie for two months, I should be able to dance on as many tables as I want to.

Properly speaking, all true work is religion.

Things that are bad for business are bad for the people who work for business.

I have a general moral: great philosophers may be great, but that is not a reason to follow them. Don't be a follower. Work it out for yourself.

Online piracy needs to be dealt with itself, because people are just wholesale stealing people's work and not paying for it. It's very hard to figure out a way to fix it.

That's pretty tough talk from a guy who has fewer days at work this year than he has houses.

My dad was a businessman, and he would say, 'Work for free at the best company. Don't get paid a lot of money to work with the worst people.' And that's exactly how I see my career.

If you read the book, you're not a journalist. You're some impostor! No journalist actually does any work.

I am being ripped off, because I've never lied to the press. Just as much truth I bring to my work, a journalist should bring that much truth to their work.

I suppose this work is part of the devil that is in us all.

I would say she [Barbara Stanwyck] did her job as best she could; an honest day's work for an honest day's pay - and when it was over, it was over.

No man can make good during working hours who does the wrong thing outside of working hours.