Quotes About Ethics

The day Dick Cheney is going to run for president, I'll kill myself. All we need is one more liar.

I've behaved badly in my life. I hope I haven't behaved as badly as Dickens! In a way, if you're a woman, you're not in a position to behave as badly, because you don't have the economic power.

There is a difference between being self-interested and being selfish. I will never be selfish.

I never do anything to make money. I do make money, but that's because I do something. Big difference.

I would like people to say that Merck continues to be a company that makes a difference in the world.

Different cultures have different predilections for different kinds of crime.

There'll be a special place in hell for the tape back-up people.

Phone tapping is bad and should not happen.

I think you've got good people and bad people in everything you do. If you start making a big deal of it, then it's a problem. It's like in life. We've got bad doctors and lawyers. We've got bad priests! We don't target every priest and say he's bad. You have to go to church and you have to go see some doctors. Some people have to be good.

No, the United States does not target civilians.

The only moral question with suicide bombing is who the target is. And in that sense, the suicide bomber is no different from the stealth bomber or the cruise missile. If it is targeted at civilian people, then it is morally wrong, whether done by Bush, Blair, or a suicide bomber.

I am actually quite relieved that I didn't have to stand beside Imran Khan while he touted blasphemy laws, and his party targeted minorities. I wouldn't want to justify the indefensible.

Everyone dies, and before that, most people eventually lose some of their faculties. So some people worry that as marketers get better at targeting the elderly, the line between advertising and unscrupulous manipulation will be harder to discern.

They were targeting those people I referred to as 'little Eichmanns.' These were legitimate targets.

Snowden grants that NSA employees by and large believe in their mission and trust the agency to handle the secrets it takes from ordinary people - deliberately, in the case of bulk records collection, and 'incidentally,' when the content of American phone calls and e-mails are swept into NSA systems along with foreign targets.

I value kindness in myself and others. I try to remain super-vigilant about my targets and make extra sure that my sometimes barbed comments are deserved and in response to genuine malefaction.

Israel never targets civilians deliberately, period.

Misdeeds of a few players and certain people cannot and should not bring bad name to hundreds of players who participated in the I.P.L. with full honesty. The reputation of the I.P.L. cannot be tarnished by a few greedy individuals.

Politics are not the task of a Christian.

Sporting behaviour means fair behaviour. This is the player's task, not the referee's.

A President's hardest task is not to do what is right, but to know what is right.

The central task for a business is to make a profit. The challenge is to make a profit by doing things which are genuinely good for people and good for societies.

The task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility and evil with activity.

There is a fine line between censorship and good taste and moral responsibility.