Quotes About Ethics

Immoral is choosing not to act when you hold in your hands the power to create perfection.

The moment we begin tolerating meanness, in ourselves and others, we are using our authorial power in the service of wrongdoing. We have both the capacity and the obligation to do better.

I'm not motivated by vanity, glory or the quest for power.

If religion cannot restrain evil, it cannot claim effective power for good.

I'm a little tired of people who have very big moral positions and very small power in reality.

Politics is ugly. Never doubt what small men will do for great power.

Using a certain sort of message can attract people to that message, and that creates power that you can either use responsibly or not.

Does not the possibility or the power to do something about the situation at hand confer on one the responsibility to do it?

The engineer's power was usually limited to a refusal to endorse a given plan, or to the tender of his resignation.

Oh, how easy it must be to be good when one has the power of doing good!

No matter how noble the original intentions, the seductions of power can turn any movement from one seeking equal rights to one that would deny them to others.

If this power could be used for good, it wouldn't be this power.

He who achieves power by violence does not truly become lord or master.

There's no way to use power for good.

For he that does good, having the unlimited power to do evil, deserves praise not only for the good which he performs, but for the evil which he forbears.

Nonviolence is power, but it is the right and good use of power.

Ethics and oversight are what you eliminate when you want absolute power.

Be a leader who is driven by purpose but not by position or power.

Honor, ' he said firmly. 'I have great honor. So will you. But you will find that that is not the same as power.

Knowledge has a great power. Therefore, unethical use of knowledge can be extremely harmful.

The royal power is the grace to act right.

Failing to indict a criminal sitting president sends the message that those in power are above the law.

There are no moral obligations in the game of empire.

I hate what you represent."... "Power without conviction." Isana replied, her tone lifeless, matter of fact. "Ambition without conscience. Decent folk suffer at the hands of those like you.