Quotes About Ethics

Preaching is the expression of the moral sentiment in application to the duties of life.

Any politician is to a certain degree a mentor. They preach something.

Well, it all depends on how you, you know, perceive the religion angle. I always say to each their own and I'd much rather have a guy that's going to be preaching religion as oppose a guy who's going to be shooting himself in the leg.

Did they preach one thing and practice another, these men of God?

The thing I try to preach the most when anybody asks me for advice - I say just be a good person first and foremost.

You need to walk the line of what you preach. I have learnt that over the years.

For Aristotle, goodness is a kind of prospering in the precarious affair of being human.

Rule-following, legal precedence, and political consistency are not more important than right, justice and plain common-sense.

I certainly don't support billionaires bankrupting media organizations. Even if you don't like the people involved, that sets a dangerous precedent.

The laws given on Mount Sinai for the government of man and woman were equal; the precepts of Jesus make no distinction.

Food isn't like anything else. It's something precious. It's not a commodity.

Character is one of most precious parts of you. You can't get involved in things that will damage your character.

Celebrity despicability is a precious thing.

At times, we forget the magnitude of the havoc we can wreak by off-loading our minds onto super-intelligent machines, that is, until they run away from us, like mad sorcerers' apprentices, and drag us up to the precipice for a look down into the abyss.

Man, double-faced by nature, is placed by Revelation under a sharp, precise external rule, controlling his actions and his thoughts.

All peoples have evolved extraordinarily precise ways of settling issues about the things that matter to them.

We live in times that are in many ways ambiguous. Maybe that's why kids want precision in what they read - they don't like that moral ambiguity.

Lawyers are predators in grey worsted.

My father has fought to protect people from predatory pharmaceutical companies and to make sure drug payments and kickbacks to doctors are disclosed.

Why don't we call on the credit card companies to be accountable? They need to be held accountable for their predatory lending practices.

We must never take the public's trust for granted - our predecessors worked hard to earn it, and it is our responsibility to continually earn that trust.

I come from a state where four governors have gone to jail since I've been alive. Two of my last four predecessors in this seat went to jail or are going to jail.

I've covered the league over two decades, I've known Bryan Colangelo for a long, long time. He's not someone who goes on and off the record criticizing his contemporaries or his predecessors.

Prefer a loss to a dishonest gain; the one brings pain at the moment, the other for all time.