Quotes About Ethics

As Americans, we're not sure we share values. We're sometimes even afraid to use the word 'values.' We talk about teaching ethics in schools - people say, 'What ethics? Whose ethics? Maybe we can't.' And they confuse that with teaching of religion.

The Church has never changed its teaching on the sanctity of human life - it didn't make up a rule for the convenience of a particular time like a rule at a country club as the Governor would have us believe.

People shouldn't be teaching if they break appointments, if they behave in an irresponsible way. I try to be down-to-earth and sensible. I want students to know I'm going to work for all of them and not play favorites and that I'm really going to do my work.

Teaching civility is an obligation of the family.

The thing I would most like to see invented is a way of teaching children and grown-ups the difference between right and wrong.

To be frank, I suspect that today there is little respect for Christianity as source of moral teaching about goodness.

Librarians are teaching the next generation how to use digital media responsibly.

The Catholic teaching against murder, for example, is largely the same as our secular laws. But as a law, it obviously has a secular rationale at least as strong as its religious rationale.

I take the teachings of the Catholic Church seriously.

Theosophy has no code of morals, being itself the embodiment of the highest morality; it presents to its students the highest moral teachings of all religions, gathering the most fragrant blossoms from the gardens of the world-faiths.

Republican politicians often evoke the Bible when it suits their purposes. But they disregard some of its most important teachings when formulating policy. This includes the story of Noah's Ark.

I never want to hear about going to hell if I did something wrong. But I do use Jesus as my curve point, and I think of his teachings when it comes to how I want to treat people.

To find a clear identity for the team - that is not about buying certain players for a lot of money. It is about getting players who want to play the right way.

Sustainability makes good business sense, and we're all on the same team at the end of the day. That's the truth about the human condition.

I didn't want to be like some other guys who jump on another team's bandwagon just to get a ring.

In my team, I don't want selfish players. I prefer to lose a game than have selfish players. I don't want that in my club. Never.

Our commitment to integrity, our commitment to diversity and inclusion, to respecting our teammates - that's what makes this business work.

I always thought being a gamer and someone who had a sense of responsibility to the game and to my teammates was the honorable thing.

People asking my teammates, 'Is Arrieta a guy who'd try to cheat the system?' Honestly, hearing that kind of stuff come from some of the best players in baseball is honestly a compliment. I view it that way.

I never agreed too much about players talking about former teammates when they go somewhere else. I've never been a fan of that.

I respected opponents as well as teammates and coaches.

Those things that are basically foundational - hard work, high standards, playing for your teammates, putting the team first - those things are ingrained in my fabric.

Owners own teams so that they might move them to another municipality with better luxury boxes.

A piece of heaven?" I managed to ask. He slowly shook his head. "No. The other place. The one I'm going to burn in for thinking what I'm thinking.