Quotes About Ethics

Whoever is running the country should not be in the pay of a foreign interest. The best way is to see tax returns.

If people are stealing the resources of this nation, if people are taking bribes - if judges or persons in authority, whether they are judges or whoever they may be in government, ministers, whoever, if they are taking bribes - it attacks the fundament of our existence as a society.

I don't think that one should beat himself or herself over the head if immediately you're not like Jesus Christ or, you know, Gandhi or whoever. But I think the idea is to... to look at those examples and try to... try to operate in a way that every day you live or every interaction you have pushes you further along to operating with that mindset.

Whoever you are - whether you're Paris Hilton, anyone - if you do something illegal there's a consequence.

You have to make sure there's a high degree of confidence that whoever won the race did it fair and square.

I always invest my own money in the companies that I create. I don't believe in the whole thing of just using other people's money. I don't think that's right. I'm not going to ask other people to invest in something if I'm not prepared to do so myself.

I have found little that is 'good' about human beings on the whole. In my experience most of them are trash, no matter whether they publicly subscribe to this or that ethical doctrine or to none at all. That is something that you cannot say aloud, or perhaps even think.

Right action tends to be defined in terms of general individual rights and standards that have been critically examined and agreed upon by the whole society.

Ethics or simple honesty is the building blocks upon which our whole society is based, and business is a part of our society, and it's integral to the practice of being able to conduct business, that you have a set of honest standards.

So great moreover is the regard of the law for private property, that it will not authorize the least violation of it; no, not even for the general good of the whole community.

There is nothing in the whole frame of man which seems to me so unaccountable as that thing called conscience.

Justice is conscience, not a personal conscience but the conscience of the whole of humanity. Those who clearly recognize the voice of their own conscience usually recognize also the voice of justice.

I try to be vegan... I really, really try. I don't eat any red meat, and the whole animal thing really upsets me, so I've tried.

Technology could benefit or hurt people, so the usage of tech is the responsibility of humanity as a whole, not just the discoverer. I am a person before I'm an AI technologist.

If you insist that individual rights are the summum bonum, then the whole structure of society falls down.

So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.

I am no longer sure of anything. If I satiate my desires, I sin but I deliver myself from them; if I refuse to satisfy them, they infect the whole soul.

Here's my whole marketing idea: treat people the way you want to be treated.

Judaism is a whole line of values that have existed for thousands of years, but the democratic idea is a new idea, and significant parts of it stand in contradiction to Judaism.

Whole Foods has been brilliant at changing the way food is produced because they just won't buy it if it doesn't meet their standards.

Whole Foods Market tries to embody all of the principles of conscious capitalism all the time, but like any person or company, we sometimes fall short.

A man who always speaks the truth wholeheartedly is greater than those who do penance and deeds of charity.

I wholeheartedly support umbilical stem cell research, but also support embryonic stem cell research.

I wholeheartedly agree that many media 'standards' can feel disingenuous or, in fact, be a cover for less-than-honest behavior.