Quotes About Ethics

Socialists, like the New York Governor, consider competition to be stealing.

It's hard for me to give this advice, but it's advice I wish I had been given when I was young: 'Build a good name. Keep your name clean. Don't make compromises. Don't worry about making a bunch of money or being successful. Be concerned with doing good work. And make the right choices and protect your work. And if you can build a good name, eventually that name will be its own currency.

Assent. Child's agreement to participate in a research study.

This is the iGods' alluring and dangerous promise—to place us in the center of our own self-reflexive universe. But what if we don't necessarily know what is best?

The world of technology is the sum total of what people do. Its redemption can only come from changes in what people, individually and collectively, do or refrain from doing. —Ursula M. Franklin

It turns out that speeding irresponsibly in a large truck, placing personal wealth ahead of the welfare of others, is one of the greatest sins in the Universe....

I know the fashion is that everything is fair game [for comedy material] but I don't believe that.

The Afghan government is as corrupt as a prostitute with a law degree.

I always suspected the perpetrators of both good and evil probably would have behaved the same way, God or no God.

Clearly determine your values, because when your values are clear, your decisions are easier.

Our society, our culture, and our humanity depend on never crossing certain lines

cynic is the man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

Like anything else, I think organized religion, like most human endeavors, is good when it's doing good and I think it's bad when it's doing bad.

revenge doesn't ever fit when there aren't any bad guys.

It isn't just a question of keeping her out of the jug. Have you any vague idea of how moral radio is? Goldman would cancel her contract in a minute if this thing broke the wrong way. She'd be all washed up. Radio goes into the home; you've got to keep it clean.

I never understood why you would ever feel the need to shoot the fish in the barrel. I mean, they're in a barrel, you've already caught them. The hard work's done, they can't escape. So if you want them dead, just drain the water out. Why bring guns into it?

Which is scarier-- lust or temptation?

Man is not, by nature, deserving of all that he wants. When we think that we are automatically entitled to something, that is when we start walking all over others to get it.

But it was only a word—justice. It was only a concept, and it wasn't enough.

But it was only a word- justice. It was only a concept, and it wasn't enough.

And then there are a lot of people who come here because they actually want to try to do something good in this country. In my case, I was working at a newspaper in Sinaloa for years, trying to report on the drug war, trying to make people there aware of what was happening in their own backyard, but my bosses only had an appetite for the macabre. They kept sending me out to take photos of crime scenes that they'd plaster

There may be a wrong way to do the right thing, but never a right way to do a wrong thing.

Killing Japanese didn't bother me very much at that time... I suppose if I had lost the war, I would have been tried as a war criminal.

The authenticity of any new society is built on the foundation of the ethics of that revolution.