Quotes About Ethics

Conquest is not in our principles. It is inconsistent with our government.

The community which has neither poverty nor riches will always have the noblest principles.

Its easy to have principles when you're rich. The important thing is to have principles when you're poor.

I have principles and I am not going to be forced to compromise them.

At the descriptive level, certainly, you would expect different cultures to develop different sorts of ethics and obviously they have; that doesn't mean that you can't think of overarching ethical principles you would want people to follow in all kinds of places.

I act on my principles, whether they're popular or not.

A man is usually more careful of his money than of his principles.

I would never try to motivate anyone to follow me. I would motivate him to follow certain principles.

Sometimes you're going to be shoved into a corner, and even though it's against your principles, against the way that you like to play the game, you're going to have to protect your own players.

In reality, anyone can call themselves a conservative. There is no secret handshake or written test to prove your bona fides. But the true conservative reaches outcomes by respecting and heeding to well-developed, sound principles.

Now I call myself a bleeding heart libertarian. Because I do believe in the principles of Libertarianism as an ideal - because I'm an idealist.

It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.

Know the difference between principles based on right or wrong vs. principles based on personal gain, and consider the basis of your own principles.

I have an ethics background. It doesn't mean you're perfect. But I tried to set an entirely different bar for politics in D.C. that's based on ethics and first principles and political philosophy, and not this constant bickering of, 'Are you Right or Left?'

A Louisiana politician can't afford to let his animosities carry him away, and still less his principles, although there is seldom difficulty in that department.

It is deeply against my principles to work on any project that I think is to weaponize AI.

Business principles are only as good as the practices that back them up.

You don't have to be a Christian to work at Chick-fil-A, but we ask you to base your business on biblical principles because they work.

I don't compromise my principles for politics.

I don't believe you outsource your convictions and principles to people.

We need to have business leaders who live by deep, strong principles.

I don't think my principles change. I think the way in which you apply those principles to modern society changes.

The more you talk about - and live by - your principles, the harder it will be for others to treat you in a morally ambiguous manner.

To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.