Quotes About Ethics

Ethical decisions ensure that everyone's best interests are protected. When in doubt, don't.

Virtue is the fount whence honour springs.

Our great power does not mean we can do whatever we want whenever we want, nor should we assume we have all the wisdom and knowledge necessary to succeed.

For to tempt and to be tempted are things very nearly allied - whenever feeling has anything to do in the matter, no sooner is it excited than we have already gone vastly farther than we are aware of.

Whenever I ask Siri for directions or a recommendation, I also ask her a trick question. Her answers are usually wacky. She scolds me for cursing, which I love, but she has no problem with ethics. If I say, 'Remind me to rob a bank at 3 P.M.,' she responds, 'Here's your reminder for today at 3 P.M.: Rob a bank. Shall I create it?'

Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct.

Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.

I think whenever something is - whenever there's something that affects the public good, then there does need to be some form of public oversight.

I didn't have money to eat when I was 21. When I was short on cash, I would sometimes scam food from fast food places. I'd go into fast food chains and pretend I was from a movie studio, tell them they didn't send us the right order and demand they fix it. I've tried to make that right whenever I could.

During my breakdown, many things, tiny things I had not even registered before, had begun to torment me with guilt. I used to steal Splenda from Starbucks. I would go into a Starbucks whenever I needed the sweetener and would take a fistful of packets, even when I didn't buy a coffee.

Increasingly, our decisions will be made by the algorithms that surround us. Whenever there is a big dilemma, you just ask Google what to do. And what kind of life is that?

What are you supposed to do - stop practicing law whenever one of your friends becomes president?

We try to make earth-friendly decisions whenever we can, as it's part of our brand DNA.

In the Bible it says God has made everything good for man to eat and to wear their skins. Whenever we eat beef, we eat chicken, we have to kill to eat. But at the same time, hunting is a sport. I think it is a great sport... I would say most hunters are Christian men.

I come from a background where you don't show off the good things you do. It's modesty.

It is impossible to tell where the law stops and justice begins.

Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins.

I stated that Hiroshima and Nagasaki are 'among the most unspeakable crimes in history.' I took no position on just where they stand on the scale of horrors relative to Auschwitz, the bombing of Chungking, Lidice, and so on.

Politics is the most corrupt profession on Earth, no matter where you are.

Where there is no property there is no injustice.

Do not tell fish stories where the people know you; but particularly, don't tell them where they know the fish.

In countries where innocent people are dying, the leaders are following their blood rather than their brains.

Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too.

You cannot spend money in luxury without doing good to the poor. Nay, you do more good to them by spending it in luxury, than by giving it; for by spending it in luxury, you make them exert industry, whereas by giving it, you keep them idle.