Quotes About Ethics

I won't get involved in businesses that I think cut across any kind of animal welfare issues.

There is animal rights and animals rights organizations like PETA, then there's animal welfare, which is very different than animal rights.

Technology should be used for better purposes, for people's overall welfare and development of state and country, instead of misusing it to win elections.

My fundamental concern about the role of faith groups in providing social provision is democratic: how do we hold them to account? To whom are they responsible? How do we, the public, the recipients of welfare, punish them if they make mistakes or become corrupt?

President Trump is draining the D.C. swamp by fighting against corporate welfare.

What type of politics is the Congress practising, wherein its leaders commit the sin of looting money meant for the welfare of pregnant women and poor children?

I care a lot about animal welfare and children. Although I don't have children myself.

In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of.

Greed is the inventor of injustice as well as the current enforcer.

Buy less. Choose well. Make it last. Quality, not quantity. Everybody's buying far too many clothes.

To seek the highest good is to live well.

It is better to die well than to live badly.

The most important question in 21st-century economics may well be, 'What should we do with all the superfluous people, once we have highly intelligent non-conscious algorithms that can do almost everything better than humans?'

Crime does not pay as well as politics.

Just cheating and lying in any way doesn't go well with me. So as a person, I am not okay with extramarital affairs.

Well first of all, tell me, is there some society you know of that doesn't run on greed? You think Russia doesn't run on greed? You think China doesn't run on greed? What is greed?

The benefits of biomedical progress are obvious, clear, and powerful. The hazards are much less well appreciated.

Good men must not obey the laws too well.

People have a moral standard about what they will do and will not do. At the end of the day someone who cheats has a lower moral standard than someone who does not. And they will cheat in other areas of life as well.

The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.

I have found no greater satisfaction than achieving success through honest dealing and strict adherence to the view that, for you to gain, those you deal with should gain as well.

If you love the rule of law, you must love it in all of its applications. You cannot only love it when it provides the verdict you seek; you must love it when the verdict goes against you as well.

You don't have to choose between doing good and doing well. It's a false choice, today more than ever.

Examine each question in terms of what is ethically and aesthetically right, as well as what is economically expedient.