Quotes About Ethics

Jesus taught that we should give to the poor and support widows, but he never said that we should elect a government that would take money from our neighbor's hand and give it to the poor.

A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.

Caesar's wife must be above suspicion.

Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife, for there are plenty of others.

A pretty wife is something for the fastidious vanity of a roue to retire upon.

I don't think a prostitute is more moral than a wife, but they are doing the same thing.

They wanted to give me some other man's liver, and I told them 'I'm not going to sleep next to my wife with another man's liver.'

It is not monogamy when there is one legal wife, and mistresses out of sight.

I'm a father, a son, and a grandson, and if anyone messed with my wife, mom, or grandmother, and if the law didn't care about it, what would I do? Would I be defined by that action?

The public, more often than not, will forgive mistakes, but it will not forgive trying to wiggle out of one.

I think the future of journalism is going to be a battle between caution and recklessness. And I think a little bit of recklessness is a good thing, as some of the WikiLeaks cables proved.

There are many people, including me, who admire the original mission of WikiLeaks.

So far, we have a perfect record of WikiLeaks having never revealed information that exposed a source over 10 years.

Let's face it: WikiLeaks exists because the mainstream media haven't done their job.

Discerning the legal difference between what WikiLeaks did and what news organizations do is difficult and would set a terrible precedent.

WikiLeaks is designed to make capitalism more free and ethical.

Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks founder, has on several occasions talked about transparency as an absolute principle. I don't personally believe that.

Democratic societies need a strong media, and WikiLeaks is part of that media.

WikiLeaks, for me, has not only that element in it of journalism publishing, but also the way in which it does it, with its - the concept we have of scientific journalism, I find very important and really appeals to me, that all of the source documents should be there.

Being editor of WikiLeaks was always a pretty difficult job.

If Wikileaks didn't resolve that question for folks - at the end of the day, there are no secrets. We're living in a glass neighborhood, in a fishbowl, and technology, white hat hackers, the folks that are doing the right thing with hacking.

We didn't become the most prosperous country in the world just by rewarding greed and recklessness. We didn't come this far by letting the special interests run wild. We didn't do it just by gambling and chasing paper profits on Wall Street. We built this country by making things, by producing goods we could sell.

The girls, like, in we'll say Hooters, have less clothing than the girls I worked with in those days. We thought it was wild when they just wore little bells and so forth. But today, in restaurants, some of the waitresses almost work in the nude, you know, to get business.

We need to learn how to capture and kill wild fish humanely - or, if that is not possible, to find less cruel and more sustainable alternatives to eating them.