Quotes About Ethics

Capitalism is against the things that we say we believe in - democracy, freedom of choice, fairness. It's not about any of those things now. It's about protecting the wealthy and legalizing greed.

The conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character building values of the privation of the poor.

I charge my wealthy clients a lot and put 10 per cent in a fund which I use to pay the expenses of my poorer clients. When the government gangs up on the poor schnook in the street, someone has to stand up for him.

There is an unwritten social rule now that you can harangue the wealthy to give money away, but you mustn't ask how the money was made. There are no galas celebrating the money people knew better than to seek. Charity begins after profit.

One must not confuse the fight against corruption with the persecution of the rich or wealthy families.

For any politician who didn't enter office a wealthy man, nothing says 'I take bribes' like a Rolex watch.

I'd be the last guy to tell a wealthy person what to do with their money. They're entitled to do whatever they want.

Yes, health care is an election issue. It's also a moral imperative especially in a wealthy nation.

I felt very uncomfortable when I became wealthy. One of my ways of dealing with it was to give it forward right away.

People often ask me how I feel about my invention being used to kill people every day and the AK being a common weapon of ethnic conflicts. I want to make it clear that I created my assault rifle to protect my country. You can blame politicians for its spreading out of control on a global scale.

The weapon of the advocate is the sword of the soldier, not the dagger of the assassin.

No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one.

When you have a high-volume magazine or an assault weapon, you're not hunting deer or protecting your home; you're out to hunt people.

Nobody ever accused me of pulling any weapon on them. I would never, ever pull a weapon on anybody.

The use of hunger as a weapon of political control is a crime against humanity.

A man of courage never needs weapons, but he may need bail.

I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.

Chemical weapons, biological weapons, and nuclear weapons should never be used.

I can make a joke pointing out that David Cameron told off Sri Lanka for human rights abuses committed with weapons Britain sold it - like Ronald McDonald calling you a fat bastard.

If atomic bombs are to be added as new weapons to the arsenals of a warring world, or to the arsenals of nations preparing for war, then the time will come when mankind will curse the names of Los Alamos and of Hiroshima.

International peace and security depend on certain taboos that are easily recognized when they are broken. It can be more important for an intervention to take place because nuclear or chemical or biological weapons are used as opposed to just measuring how many people are killed.

One of its most powerful weapons has always been 'barbarity': 'we' know that 'we' are civilised by contrasting ourselves with those we deem to be un-civilised, with those who do not - or cannot be trusted to - share our values.

Cyber weapons won't go away, and their spread can't be controlled. Instead, as we've done for other destructive technologies, the world needs to establish a set of principles to determine the proper conduct of governments regarding cyber conflict.

I didn't promote war when I was a weapons inspector.