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Quotes About Ethics

Human Beings are just good enough to make democracy possible...just bad enough to make it neccessary.
~ Reinhold Niebuhr
Civil liberties, good. Lawyers, bad.
~ Richard Belzer
A generation ago, the image was that you had to trample everyone else down to succeed; but I don't believe that makes good business sense.
~ Richard Branson
Screwing business as usual fundamentally recognises that doing good is good for business.
~ Richard Branson
Good customer service begins at the top. If your senior people don't get it, even the strongest links further down the line can become compromised.
~ Richard Branson
Good and evil - I don't believe that there is hanging out there, anywhere, something called good and something called evil.
~ Richard Dawkins
Can't you ever get off for good behavior?" "Sure, if I was ever good.
~ Richelle Mead
What True Blood does really well is that it balances on the line between good and evil - you blur the distinction between the two.
~ Robert Kazinsky
The press today is full of people who are not qualified and not trying very hard to be good reporters.
~ Robert Osborne
It is hard enough to be good at all, but to be good in comedy speaks for your character.
~ Roger Ebert
The good man, though a slave, is free; the wicked, though he reigns, is a slave.
~ Saint Augustine
The principles of Buddhism have become more commonplace, which is a good thing.
~ Sakyong Mipham
George W. Bush is using language that's a mirror image of the language of Osama bin Laden when he says, "We have God on our side. This is the struggle of good against evil."
~ Sam Hamill
A good man will not engage even in a national cause, without examining the justice of it.
~ Samuel Richardson
No one is anything but a shade of grey. It's good people making bad choices.
~ Sara Bareilles
I consider myself to be a good guy so it's not hard for me to play that.
~ Sean William Scott
Whatever we owe, it is our part to find where to pay it, and to do it without asking, too; for whether the creditor be good or bad, the debt is still the same.
~ Seneca the Younger
Everyone is caught in the web of his or her own actions and is bound by past karmas (actions). Good and bad are relative terms. Every action takes one to the next place.
~ Sharon Gannon
My idea of what's good and bad and right and wrong is maybe greyer than most, and I like writing about that.
~ Shaun Cassidy
A person of "good character" was one who acted in accordance with the expectations of his community
~ Sheena Iyengar
Greater good is just halfway back to Bad.
~ Sheri Holman
There are writers who say they have no social responsibility except to write a good book, but that doesn't satisfy me.
~ Sheri S. Tepper
I learned the bad guys are not always bad, the good guys are not always good.
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Contemporary culture is not very good on responsibility.
~ Simon Blackburn