Quotes About Ethics

I tend to look at potential investments from the standpoint of whether it is a valuable contribution to society.

.. that a rule, which, in speculation, may seem the most advantageous to society, may yet be found, in practice, totally pernicious and destructive.

They're animals, all right. But why are you so goddam sure that makes us human beings?

Not just charity, even corruption begins at home.

We have got nowadays so that we divide lies into white lies and black lies, society lies and business lies, etc. The Word of God knows no such letting-down of the standard.

In a free society, it is hard for 'good' people to do 'good', but that is a small price to pay for making it hard for 'evil' people to do 'evil', especially since one man's good is another's evil

To be individually righteous is the first of all duties, come what may to ones self, to one's country, to society, and to civilization itself.

We don't evaluate what's right and wrong, we live in a society. We live in a culture. We have to live within the culture.

The vigor of civilized societies is preserved by the widespread sense that high aims are worth-while.

Those who condemn the immorality of liberal capitalism do so in comparison with a society of saints that has never existed—and never will

Members of society must obey the law because they personally believe that its commands are justified.

Disbelief in futurity loosens in a great measure the ties of morality, and may be for that reason pernicious to the peace of civil society.

I don't want to live in a society that does these sort of things.

Commanding goodness and forbiding to do evil (are) for the amendment and correction of society and the common folks.

I find it a challenge to cooperate in a society where it's considered moral to critique a résumé yet immoral to critique morality.

The rich don't have to kill to eat. They employ people, as they call it. The rich don't do evil themselves. They pay. People do all they can to please them, and everybody's happy.

In an unjust society the only place for a just man is prison.

I think we have moved from a shareholder society to a stakeholder society, and that has massive implications.

I think the idea that a society has to be responsible for all of its citizens, those who do well and those who do not, is really a precondition of a good society.

Revolution that divests itself of ethical values thereby lays the foundation of injustice, deceit, and oppression for the future society.

A society based on Christian principles provides for pluralism, but with enough restrictions to prevent civilization from degenerating into chaos.

Communicated in the right way, Judeo-Christian philosophy and the religions that uphold it bind a citizenry together in pursuit of a just and generous society.

Secret courts making secret rulings on secret laws, and companies flagrantly lying to consumers about the insecurity of their products and services, undermine the very foundations of our society.

The nature and extent of profanity and vulgarity in our society is a measure of its deterioration.