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Quotes About Ethics

The right way is not always the popular and easy way. Standing for right when it is unpopular is a true test of moral character.
~ Margaret Chase Smith
Sustainability has to be a way of life to be a way of business.
~ Anand Mahindra
When you're a liar, a person of low moral fortitude, really any explanation you need to be true can be true. Especially if you're smart enough. You can figure out a way to justify anything.
~ Samuel Witwer
When things don't go your way, you've got to keep trying to do the right things.
~ Dele Alli
If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way.
~ Aristotle
The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.
~ Socrates
Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.
~ Isaac Asimov
Bitcoin is mostly about anonymous transactions, and I don't think over time that's a good way to go. I'm a huge believe in digital currency... but doing it on an anonymous basis I think that leads to some abuses, so I'm not involved in Bitcoin.
~ Bill Gates
The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.
~ Samuel Butler
The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
The law is the law whether you're dealing with a multi-million-pound fraud or a car deal where someone feels diddled because their exhaust falls off on the way home.
~ Robert Rinder
Batman doesn't use a gun. When Bruce Wayne thinks he had to resort to a street thug's level to defend himself and the girl he was rescuing, he decides he can't be Batman anymore.
~ Paul Dini
There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.
~ Samuel Johnson
As society becomes more and more complex, cheating will in many ways become progressively easier and easier to do and harder to police or even understand.
~ Vitalik Buterin
Heroes are those who can somehow resist the power of the situation and act out of noble motives, or behave in ways that do not demean others when they easily can.
~ Philip Zimbardo
We all wake up in the morning wanting to live our lives the way we know we should. But we usually don't, in small ways. That's what makes a character like Batman so fascinating. He plays out our conflicts on a much larger scale.
~ Christopher Nolan
There are no morals about technology at all. Technology expands our ways of thinking about things, expands our ways of doing things. If we're bad people we use technology for bad purposes and if we're good people we use it for good purposes.
~ Herbert A. Simon
I believe in human-centered AI to benefit people in positive and benevolent ways.
~ Fei-Fei Li
Admitting the truth would have meant exposing us all. We spent our first decade in the country learning the ways of the new land and trying to fit in. Having a slave did not fit. Having a slave gave me grave doubts about what kind of people we were, what kind of place we came from.
~ Alex Tizon
Nothing in the nature around us is evil. This needs to be repeated since one of the human ways of talking oneself into inhuman acts is to cite the supposed cruelty of nature.
~ John Berger
Henrietta Lacks' cells are immortal. They are known as the HeLa cell line, and they have become deeply involved in all sorts of medical and genetic research - sometimes in the most unexpected ways.
~ Adam Curtis
There are so many different ways to lead. The most important thing is to be genuine. To have people around you trust you, trust in what you stand for and who you are. And I think that if people watch you day in and day out and believe in your motives and they believe that you set a high standard for yourself.
~ Steve Nash
There's other ways to make your head and muscles bigger than just steroids.
~ Pete Rose
There are ways of fighting for your interests. I never do something in business that I wouldn't do in life.
~ Vladimir Potanin