Quotes About Ethics

All the good work in the world will not compensate for the damage that a single facet of the business, or a rogue individual, can do. Insider trading, environmental damage, human-rights violations, and opportunistic practices erode trust and result in net negative impact.

People that have integrity violations should be fired, not coached. How many integrity violations does it take to ruin the reputation of your company? Just one. You don't coach integrity violations. You fire them.

If people knew of ethics violations, they should have sent them to the Ethics Committee. If you think there was serious ethics violation that ought to be looked at, you don't hold it back for retaliatory purposes.

When we tolerate violations to the Constitution, the entire moral foundation of our political system is shaken to its core.

Violence isn't always evil. What's evil is the infatuation with violence.

Every civilization is founded on sins - every single one. Dispossession, violence, appropriation. What distinguishes civilizations are the ones who rise above it.

When I was running Atari, violence against humanoid figures was not allowed. We'd let you shoot at a tank... but we drew the line at shooting at people, with blood splattering everywhere.

The most important element of a free society, where individual rights are held in the highest esteem, is the rejection of the initiation of violence.

Abortion is the ultimate violence.

The problem to me is violence. It's not cool to kill somebody or hurt people.

Anyone who has proclaimed violence his method inexorably must choose lying as his principle.

Violence is both unavoidable and unjustifiable.

I think violence can never be justified.

I just don't believe in joking about violence anymore.

I am committed to the principle that violence is never justified as a means of ameliorating a grievance.

Judges make tough decisions on child abuse, divorce, property disputes, drunk driving, domestic violence and other issues that should be free from politics.

The role of the intellectual cannot be to excuse the violence of one side and condemn that of the other.

I don't support violence, period.

The Gross National Product includes the destruction of the redwoods and the death of Lake Superior. It grows with the production of napalm and missiles and nuclear warheads... It includes... the broadcasting of television programs which glorify violence to sell goods to our children.

There is violence in real life but I would never impose violence in a film just to attract the audience.

There's always a theme I'm drawn to, that we humans are not good or bad. We're all a mixture of both. We can have great compassion or commit great violence.

We were raised with that discussion about violence and non-violence, and we all pretty much came up on the side of non-violence. That became my foundation with politics and my livelihood.

If I do not respond to some situation, my conscience kills me. I believe in permissible violence, not necessarily non-violence.

My moral compass swings far to the left, but when it comes to gratuitous violence, I have trouble.