Quotes About Ethics

Under the leadership of President Bush and Vice President Cheney, the United States has given up the moral high ground that we used to occupy as an international leader.

When law becomes despotic, morals are relaxed, and vice versa.

What is good for you is not necessarily good for the company, and vice versa.

If you care enough to look right, you care enough to act right. And vice versa.

I do think we need to at least register artificial intelligence units to be able to monitor and control them. Because we want to control them and not vice versa.

The computer's there to serve the human being, not vice versa.

He who busies himself with things other than improvement of his own self becomes perplexed in darkness and entangled in ruin. His evil spirits immerse him deep in vices and make his bad actions seem handsome.

Arresting development, attacking science, and glorifying poverty is not the answer to the vices that attend prosperity.

All institutions are prone to corruption and to the vices of their members.

Crimes sometimes shock us too much; vices almost always too little.

Half the vices which the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in them and require moderate use rather than total abstinence.

Human depravity originates in the vices of political constitution.

The more people rationalize cheating, the more it becomes a culture of dishonesty. And that can become a vicious, downward cycle. Because suddenly, if everyone else is cheating, you feel a need to cheat, too.

As a writer, you have to be mean and vicious. Use the pen as your gun. Sometimes the people you write about get hurt.

Brutality to an animal is cruelty to mankind - it is only the difference in the victim.

Evil requires the sanction of the victim.

We encourage whistleblowers to come forward in instances where the government is a victim.

The moment that justice must be paid for by the victim of injustice it becomes itself injustice.

I have no feelings for the criminal. All my feelings lie with the victim.

When you're the victim of the behavior, it's black and white; when you're the perpetrator, there are a million shades of gray.

Is it exploitative to get the victim of an unimaginably horrific crime to talk on my show 'Crime Stories?' No, it's crucial.

I consider myself a fairly ethical individual while I do have a lot of dichotomies within me. We're all victims of our own hypocrisy at times.

There has to be some limit to what lawyers can take from their clients. Otherwise, cagey attorneys end up with the lion's share of the settlement and the victims end up with little more than scraps.

I grow dizzy when I recall that the number of manufactured tanks seems to have been more important to me than the vanished victims of racism.