Quotes About Ethics

I know that even a consensual relationship with a subordinate is inappropriate, but I still allowed it to happen despite my better judgment.

I don't subscribe to the view some people have in the industry that you should purposefully design products that do not last that long. I don't think it is good for anyone.

I don't subscribe to any particular doctrine or ideology. I just think that there's kind of a good and bad, the good being life in its purest, happiest form, and the other being the darker side of existence.

I do not subscribe to the advocacy journalism school. It's not who I am and not who CNN wants me to be.

I am a person who does not subscribe to the hero-CEO school of thought.

If you subscribe to any moral code that says you should care for humanity, obviously black people will fit into that category.

Don't read, click links or subscribe to any media organisations that peddle sinister untruths and stereotypes.

We've seen the government give out subsidies to companies, those companies turn around and use it for executive bonuses.

All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they have no power over the substance of original justice.

Man's shortcomings and sins are all due to substance of the body and not to its form, while all his merits are exclusively due to his form.

Once and for all, I did not use steroids or any other illegal substance.

I'm boiling about the rainforests being chopped down to make disposable chopsticks. I'm boiling about the fact that we have palm oil put into every single one of our substances.

If I can give a very substantial injection of humanistic thinking into corporations, boy, that would change things a lot.

It's regrettable that some people have to make a substantial living at others' expense.

Now here is a departure from the first principle of true ethics. Here we find ideas of moral wrong and moral right associated with something else than beneficial action. The consequent is, we lose sight of the real basis of morals, and substitute a false one.

Best, I'd advise, to give up all animal products obtained by cruel methods. There are some fine companies nowadays offering leather substitutes.

A hidden camera must never become a lazy substitute for the rigours of old-style reporting.

In literature as in ethics, there is danger, as well as glory, in being subtle. Aristocracy isolates us.

We shall seek first to tell the truth rather than to study the subtle art of adjusting it to the circumstances of time and person.

Sexual harassment is complex, subtle, and highly subjective.

All political revolutions, not affected by foreign conquest, originate in moral revolutions. The subversion of established institutions is merely one consequence of the previous subversion of established opinions.

Sir Hugh Greene is the man I hold most responsible for the state of our country today. For 11 years hardly a week went by without a sniping reference to me. And he gave access to anyone who was prepared to say anything morally subversive.

Drone attacks subvert the rule of law - we become judge, jury, and executioner - at the push of a button.

There's a correct way to succeed. The incorrect way is to do things incorrectly.