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Quotes About Ethics

Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.
~ Oliver Goldsmith
Honor sinks where commerce long prevails.
~ Walter Bagehot
He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.
~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Media corporations have a civic responsibility not only to prevent fraud and financial abuse, but also to not corrupt or degrade our culture.
~ Charles W. Pickering
Once the Congress party comes to power under Rahul Gandhi ji's leadership, we will enact a strong law to prevent horse-trading and defections.
~ Vijayashanti
The fight against corruption is not bound to high-profile arrests and high-profile investigations. The fight against corruption is successful if you prevent corruption taking place in the first place.
~ Ahmed Chalabi
Dominant companies have a special responsibility to ensure that the way they do business doesn't prevent competition... and does not harm consumers and innovation.
~ Mario Monti
Companies shouldn't use the law to prevent consumers from doing something legal.
~ Jon Johansen
When it comes to the population explosion, there are two questions on the table. One, is our population growth going to kill us all? And two, is there any ethical way to prevent that from happening?
~ Annalee Newitz
Certainly I see no reason why society should prevent grieving parents from having a baby cloned from the cells of a dead child if they wish.
~ Gregory Benford
We used our brains to create and program them, and now we have to continue to use our brains to prevent computers from taking over our lives.
~ Lorne Greene
I believe in preventing cruelty to all living beings in any form.
~ Morarji Desai
Prevention of birth is a precipitation of murder.
~ Tertullian
One might call habit a moral friction: something that prevents the mind from gliding over things but connects it with them and makes it hard for it to free itself from them.
~ Georg C. Lichtenberg
I don't want to say names, but there are certain companies I won't work with because of previous people they've worked with. I don't want to be put in the same category as another athlete that I don't necessarily think is a good role model.
~ Alex Morgan
To try to prey on athletes' livelihoods while one is going through a tough time is embarrassing to me.
~ Colin Kaepernick
Who needs a bullet piercing, armor piercing bullet to go hunting? Who needs an assault rifle to go hunting? You can't even use the prey that you kill with an assault rifle if you indeed do it.
~ Don Lemon
Crime is the price society pays for abandoning character.
~ James Q. Wilson
I sell myself for the highest price. Exactly like a prostitute. There is no difference.
~ Klaus Kinski
What does it mean to be a conservative? I don't even know anymore. I know what it means to me. It means to me, personal responsibility. That if I've done something wrong, its up to me to pay the price. It's up to me to make it right.
~ Glenn Beck
It's fun to play a character who lives on the edge, who is an ethical and moral mess, and is paying the price for some of his actions.
~ Josh Charles
The price of being a nice guy is too high - much too high - in terms of the system of justice.
~ Jed S. Rakoff
The price we are willing to pay for safety cannot be infinite. It is distasteful to put a price on human life, but the more we spend on safety, the less we will have for our other goals.
~ Peter Singer
Engaging in actions which are not allowed by law should have certain prices to pay.
~ Recep Tayyip Erdogan