Quotes About Ethics

It is really your behaviour that determines whether you're a patriot.

It is the patriotic duty of every man to lie for his country.

The same ambition can destroy or save, and make a patriot as it makes a knave.

We do not consider patriotism desirable if it contradicts civilized behavior.

Corporations are a fictional entity that are designed to make money, and they're neither people nor patriots.

The Patriots cheat. This is just a fact as established by investigations. They're a cheating team.

Well, I don't believe in patronage.

Millions of Americans recognize the right of private businesses to donate to any cause they choose; that if one doesn't want to patronize a chicken sandwich business, one can certainly buy fast food anywhere they want.

Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconcious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character.

I don't want to sit here and disparage Paul Ryan the man, because he's a good guy. He's a moral person. He's a decent person.

It's funny how you can be thought of as somebody who humanizes bad guys, and I'll take that, but it is something that gave me pause, and I started speaking to my team about finding a good guy.

Hell is paved with great granite blocks hewn from the hearts of those who said, I can do no other.

It's like a golden rule in the pawn business: never cash a government check.

The fight goes on with or without me, I'm just a pawn. But at least I'm a pawn on the morally right side.

Make crime pay. Become a lawyer.

In the beginning, I was so chintzy I really didn't pay my employees well.

I would consider it to be immoral to take a paycheck when the people in the federal government are not.

I know that a lot of times when a guy is making a lot of money and he's not playing up to that caliber, it's like he's just getting his paycheck. That's never been me. That's never, ever been me.

People feel entitled to take whatever's online without paying for it.

Everybody has to be responsible for their own actions - and if they do something wrong, I believe in paying for it.

I don't believe in paying for sex. Which is why I'll never again pay for a woman's dinner.

If someone really wants my company's business, why shouldn't he be able to do everything he can - including paying me off - to get that business? Because bribery encourages people to make decisions based on the wrong criteria, which means in the business world that it distorts the efficient allocation of resources.

We had a big controversy in the United States when there was a limited number of dialysis machines. In Seattle, they appointed what they called a 'God committee' to choose who should get it, and that committee was eventually abandoned. Society ended up paying the whole bill for dialysis instead of having people make those decisions.

How about we all stop paying our mortgages! It's a moral hazard.