Quotes About Ethics

Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best.

When you give politicians the power to do what you think is right you're automatically giving politicians the power to do what you think is wrong.

When extraordinary power and extraordinary pay are allotted to any individual in a government, he becomes the center, round which every kind of corruption generates and forms.

There is a strong moralistic strain in the civil rights movement that would remind us that power corrupts, forgetting that the absence of power also corrupts.

Character - not wealth, power, or position - is the supreme word.

The mere possession of a gun is, in itself, an urge to kill, not only by design, but by accident, by madness, by fright, by bravado.

The possession of power inevitably spoils the free use of reason.

An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens.

The problem with addicted people, communities, corporations, or countries is that they tend to lie, cheat, or steal to get their 'fix.' Corporations are addicted to profit and governments to power.

Great men are never cruel without necessity.

There are people in the world who have the power to change our values.

The most personal thing I've put in [Touch of Evil] is my hatred of the abuse of police power. It's better to see a murderer go free than for a policeman to abuse his power.

Believing a person deserves a defence is not the same as doing anything in your power to get him off scot-free.

Power won by crime no one ever yet turned to a good purpose.

He who steals a little steals with the same wish as he who steals much, but with less power.

We are all born with the power of speech, but we need grammar. Conscience, too, needs Revelation.

Booker T. Washington

Knowledge is power, and for each level of knowledge, you are held responsible for how you use it.

Loving money at the expense of others is an abuse of power to get wealth.

No real journalist makes $5 million a year... Those in power fear and dislike real journalists.

But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.

Some say knowledge is power, but that is not true. Character is power.

There's enough on this planet for everyone's needs but not for everyone's greed.

Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done.