Quotes About Ethics

Don't get taken in by the superficiality of sanskaar. You can smoke, drink and have your share of fun. What matters is to do good deeds.

We can all instinctively understand the idea of life insurance; most of us will feel an instinctive repugnance at the thought of the viatical industry, or 'dead peasants insurance.' As market thinking penetrated the life insurance industry, a moral line was crossed, and the application of market ideas was taken too far.

Human affairs are not serious, but they have to be taken seriously.

Education is taken for granted. Teaching shops are different from building character.

I don't like people who are just takers.

To stop a bad guy with a gun, it takes a good guy with a gun.

The death penalty not only takes away the life of the person strapped to the table - it takes away a little bit of the humanity in each of us.

Most people are not good people. In business, in art, in almost every 'world' I've been in, most people I've meet are pretty gray to black. It takes practice to be the person who is a source of compassion and honesty.

I profoundly believe it takes a lot of practice to become a moral slob.

We are all murderers and prostitutes - no matter to what culture, society, class, nation one belongs, no matter how normal, moral, or mature, one takes oneself to be.

The Catholic Church is wealthier than Coca-Cola, but takes from some of the poorest people in the world.

Sometimes English football takes pride in having the lowest yellow-card count in Europe, but of course it will have if you can take someone's leg off and still not be booked.

Abortion isn't a lesser evil, it's a crime. Taking one life to save another, that's what the Mafia does. It's a crime. It's an absolute evil.

Justice is never advanced in the taking of a human life.

Taking on corporate greed is an environmental concern.

Because cheating is easier when we can justify our behavior, people often cheat in small amounts: We can come up with an excuse for stealing Post-It notes, but it is much more difficult to come up with an excuse for taking $10,000 from petty cash.

I think one can easily make a case for taking out Saddam Hussein. In fact, one could probably be made on humanitarian grounds alone. But just as there's a downside risk to doing nothing about this man, there is a very serious downside risk to invading the country.

A majority, perhaps as many as 75 percent, of abortion clinics are in areas with high minority populations. Abortion apologists will say this is because they want to serve the poor. You don't serve the poor, however, by taking their money to terminate their children.

I'm not the kind of guy who's taking advantage of my position.

You should not be taking advantage of anybody.

Disclosure of the full monthly costs that consumers pay is the first step to ensuring that cable companies stop taking advantage of consumers.

Jumping through any hoop or taking advantage of any desperate situation that comes up just to sell a product is harmful. It is.

I have been maligned as taking advantage of others' hardship in order to make a buck. Nothing could be further from the truth.

If you are a chef, you have an incredible responsibility in this world. Don't just open a restaurant to serve food. Include the community, and make sure that you are not taking advantage of what the planet has given us.