Quotes About Ethics

I have something that I call my Golden Rule. It goes something like this: 'Do unto others twenty-five percent better than you expect them to do unto you.' … The twenty-five percent is for error.

Science is the search for the truth--it is not a game in which one tries to beat his opponent, to do harm to others. We need to have the spirit of science in international affairs, to make the conduct of international affairs the effort to find the right solution, the just solution of international problems, and not an effort by each nation to get the better of other nations, to do harm to them when it is possible. I believe in morality, in justice, in humanitarianism.

Do unto others 20% better than you would expect them to do unto you, to correct for subjective error.

I'm a bastard. I have absolutely no clue why people can ever think otherwise. Yet they do. People think I'm a nice guy, and the fact is that I'm a scheming, conniving bastard who doesn't care for any hurt feelings or lost hours of work if it just results in what I consider to be a better system. And I'm not just saying that. I'm really not a very nice person. I can say 'I don't care' with a straight face, and really mean it.

It is easy to possess a conscience, Monsieur, when one only needs to talk or write about it. But the man, who has to act is constantly faced with the necessity, if he wishes to deal justly with one person, of being unjust to somebody else.

Though physical courage is a common phenomenon in our day and age, moral courage is a thing that is correspondingly rare.

People who have manifested the greatest physical courage, in actual fact, not seldom fail when it comes to showing a little moral courage.

Dreiser's literary faults, it gives us to understand, are essentially social and political virtues.

fail a stringent code of ethics and that none of us was capable of earning a place of honor.

The knowledge of what is good without practicing it, turns frequently to evil. —C. MARTELLI, FENCING MASTER

Then we did the best we could, all we could. He was the enemy, Kimberly. He took their lives. And God help both of us, but sometimes the enemy is simply that good.

Let me be the first to say, there isn't a hell big enough for some of the assholes we have walking here on this earth.

Terms like that, 'Humane Society,' are devised with people like me in mind, who don't care to dwell on what happens to the innocent.

Standing up to bullies is the hallmark of a civilized society.

Companies, to date, have often used the excuse that they are only beholden to their shareholders, but we need shareholders to think of themselves as stakeholders in the well being of society as well.

We live in what's called an open society, which of course means they open our emails, open our phone records, and open our medical records.

He who stands aloof runs the risk of believing himself better than others and misusing his critique of society as an ideology for his private interest.

Torture is such a slippery slope; as soon as you allow a society or any legal system to do that, almost instantly you get a situation where people are being tortured for very trivial reasons.

Society has no business to permit degenerates to reproduce their kind

When shame is missing from corporate life, society, quickly becomes uncivilized.

To be wealthy and honored in an unjust society is a disgrace.

All of us who professionally use the mass media are the shapers of society. We can vulgarise that society. We can brutalise it. Or we can help lift it onto a higher level.

...every man shares the responsibility and the guilt of the society to which he belongs.

Every society and religion has rules, for both have moral laws. And the essence of morality consists, as in art, of drawing the line somewhere.