Quotes About Ethics

If you've developed an ideology that what's good for you personally also happens to be good for everyone else, that's quite wonderful because there's no moral tension.

The tension between public and private science is powerful.

Human beings are made up of many different values, and sometimes those values are in tension with each other.

When you treat everyone on the sets with respect, it keeps the workspace free of tension. Your conscience is clear, and that reflects on the camera.

With access to enough Facebook data, it would finally be possible to take the first stab at simulating society 'in silico.' The implications were astonishing: You could, in theory simulate a future society to create problems like ethnic tension or wealth disparity and watch how they play out.

I strongly believe that if we would allow tent encampments on the sidewalks, people are going to die on the sidewalks, and we're better than that.

Never compromise your principles, even if it leads to difficulties in the short term.

Evil exists to glorify the good. Evil is negative good. It is a relative term. Evil can be transmuted into good. What is evil to one at one time, becomes good at another time to somebody else.

In day-to-day life, you have stimulus to behave unethically, but in the long term, it always pays off to be ethical.

Many business leaders are seeing the relationship between long term success and sustainability, and that's very heartening.

American decision-makers must understand how damaging a foreign policy that privileges order and profit over justice really is in the long term.

Murder is an offensive act. The term cannot be applied legitimately to any defensive act.

Boycott is not a principle. When it becomes one, it itself risks becoming exclusive and racist. No boycott, in our sense of the term, should be directed against an individual, a people, or a nation as such.

I have problems with this very extreme form of capitalism where the pendulum has swung so far in one direction, where the focus is completely on the short term, and no one is thinking about the consequences.

As governor of New Mexico, I would have - I signed a bill banning late term abortion. I've always favored parental notification. I've always favored counseling. I've always favored the notion of no public funds used for abortion.

Nowadays, the term 'selling out' doesn't exist anymore because everyone is trying to make a living.

Term limits aren't enough. We need jail.

Black money is a cancer in our economic system, not yet terminal or life-threatening.

Corporate social responsibility is measured in terms of businesses improving conditions for their employees, shareholders, communities, and environment. But moral responsibility goes further, reflecting the need for corporations to address fundamental ethical issues such as inclusion, dignity, and equality.

Terms like 'good' and 'bad' are extremely simplistic in what is a far more complex situation.

I have been a professor, and I have been a policymaker, and as a professor, you think in terms of truth or absolutes.

We have been successful in buying and selling companies because we have a reputation of fulfilling deal terms in letter and spirit.

I think the greater responsibility, in terms of morality, is where leadership begins.

My on-set, keep-warm jacket is a Patagonia, and they make sure the people who make their clothes are paid fairly, along with a load of other great stuff and initiatives. They're a business, but they put their money where their mouth is in terms of caring and responsibility.