Quotes About Ethics

True patriotism is not worship of our nation but rather, in the light of our worship of the God of justice, to conform our nation's ways of justice.

Values are the soul of storytelling.

We burned to death 100 000 Japanese civilians in Tokyo - men, women and children. LeMay recognized that what he was doing would be thought immoral if his side had lost. But what makes it immoral if you lose and not immoral if you win?

They hire smart attorneys and accountants, and persuade politicians to change laws or create legal loopholes.

The lack of money is the root of all evil.

There are many things I have done in the past that I am not proud of and would not do again.

I think Eleanor Roosevelt said it best: "Do what you feel in your heart to be right—for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.

It can be done legally, but it is not usually done by the average investor.

Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value. — Albert Einstein

animals are strictly dry, they sinless live and swiftly die, but sinful, ginful, rum-soaked men, survive for three-score years and ten.

Permitting businesses and special interests to fund political campaigns encourages demagoguery and invites corruption. That is not government of the people, by the people, and for the people. It's government of, by, and for money.

My love of humankind will be agreeably balanced with mercantile rationality on the scales of salesmanship.

human beings are a species splendid in their array of moral equipment, tragic in their propensity to misuse it, and pathetic in their ignorance of the misuse.

The sages may have been self-serving, like the rest of us, but that doesn't mean they weren't sages.

My position was a common one; I wanted to do the right thing but could not help regretting the damnable expense.

A world without corruption would be a strange world indeed - and a damned bad world for lawyers, let me say.

If you cling frantically to the good, how are you to find out what the good really is?

The beauty of ethics is that nobody can be perfectly certain about what it includes or even what it means.

With CRISPR/CAS9, any gene whose sequence is known can be removed, replaced, turned on, or turned off, and all this can be done in the equivalent of someone's garage.

I've been getting some crap from the rest of the ER staff," Thomas said. "They think I'm interested in the case because the patient is a piece of ass.

It was an awful reminder of how much business interests have taken over medicine. Especially with private equity trying to eke out every last penny of compensation

I disliked promises on principle because my conscience made me keep them.

To Be a Great Leader, First Become a Great Person.

Sow a character, you reap your destiny.