Quotes About Ethics

My mum's got morals and principles, and I've been brought up with those ideas and beliefs.

I'm a guy of strong principles and I think people respect that.

When I say I don't do fur or leather, in my world it's a massive shock, but when it comes into the sporting arena, it goes without saying. It also influences what I do on the runway: I get really excited when I discover an environmentally-friendly print process that doesn't use water, and I'll try and mimic that in my ready-to-wear.

The human's being right to do as he pleases without interfering with someone else's rights is a formula defining rights prior to social legislation.

More important than your obligation to follow your conscience, or at least prior to it, is your obligation to form your conscience correctly.

Corruption is one of the high priorities of my agenda.

I knew the shirt-swapping business in general was getting out of hand when opponents would ask me for my shirt while we were still mid-match. Those are the wrong priorities.

I am a big fan of the following priorities: first the country, then the party and then the person. I believe that this gives credibility and I want to be credible.

An important priority for me is a business must get their own house in order. Be or become an agent of positive change in your own enterprise and adopt responsible practices to eliminate the risks that often lie at the root of inequality and poverty.

Throughout my career, I have made rooting out public corruption a top priority.

I prefer a prison full of criminals than a graveyard full of innocent people.

You look around the world in 2013, and you say, 'How many prime ministers or presidents are in prison?' One or two. 'How many generals or bankers?' Two or three. 'But how many writers?' 850 or so.

He who sells what isn't his'n, Must buy it back or go to prison.

Not all psychopaths are in prison - some are in the boardroom.

I think corporations are a whole lot different than people. I mean, I don't know a corporation would be put in prison. I do know people would be put in prison.

If you've been running a business for 38 years, you're approaching your 66th birthday, you've never owed a man a penny or done anyone any grievance in your life, and you feel hard done-by and try to protect yourself and your family, but go to prison, well if that's the society we're living in, I'm happy to accept that.

We can't let somebody rise to the top who will pardon these war criminals. Because they need to go to prison for what they've done in this world. We can't have a pardon. They need to pay for what they've done.

People are calling on me to put corrupt people into prison. Where do you start?

I will be a model prisoner, as I have been a model citizen.

We Americans have a sense of ourselves as a moral people. We have led the way in the fight for human rights in the world. Mistreating prisoners makes the world see our moral claims as hypocrisy.

I know from personal experience that the abuse of prisoners will produce more bad than good intelligence.

Journalism itself is by no means pristine clean; it has as many corrupt elements as other sections of society.

Privacy may actually be an anomaly.

Businesses that make consumer privacy a point of competitive differentiation will enjoy greater customer loyalty.