Quotes About Ethics

It's important, when going after a goal, to never lose sight of the integrity of the journey.

A hunt based only on trophies taken falls far short of what the ultimate goal should be.

Daily, I examine myself in three areas. Have I done my best when doing things for others? Have I been trustworthy in my dealings with my friends? Have I revised the lessons I have been taught?

Eugenic goals are most likely to be attained under another name than eugenics.

If someone with the right conduct tries to attain to something that lies outside of it, is his goal not the right conduct.

I have tremendous admiration for everyone who enters the political arena so long as their goal is to do what they believe is right for the people of New York.

Those who praise victory relish manslaughter. Those who relish manslaughter cannot reach their goals in the world.

My only goal was to make the largest profit possible for my employer. I was caught in a spiral that - with the support of my bosses - continued to lead up and up.

The goal is justice, the method? is transparency. It's important not to confuse the goal and the method.

To reach your goal authentically is probably, in the end, going to mean much more to you than having reached it in a false way.

Our goal isn't to close Wal-Mart down. It is to make it a better, more humane company toward its employees and the communities it is in.

A politician's goal is always to manipulate public debate. I think there are some politicians with higher goals. But all of them get corrupted by power.

Leadership, in other words, is a matter of character, not goals.

If your main goal is to show that your heart is in the right place, then your heart is not in the right place.

I tried to walk a line between acting lawfully AND testifying falsely, but I now realize that I did not fully accomplish that goal.

My goal is to replicate prosperity with integrity.

Ideal goals are a menace in themselves, as much in more modern philosophers as in Plato.

Many people and companies only have one goal: money, money, and more money. Greed is ok when you let others profit from it, but greed for oneself is bad, it makes you ill.

It's unlikely that machines would spontaneously decide they didn't like people, or that they had goals in opposition to those of human beings.

There is no way now to get around some use of embryos. But my goal is to avoid using them.

The most important goal I had in mind was to convince people to stop blindly trusting algorithms and assuming that they are inherently fair and objective.

When we have a great goal we are superior even to justice, not merely to our deeds and our judges.

Anytime destruction of another is needed in order to advance one's own aims or goals, then the goals need to be reevaluated.

Never approach a friend's wife or girlfriend with mischief as your goal... unless she's really attractive.