Quotes About Ethics

No one is more keen than me to see the Hunting Act repealed, because I believe in the management of wildlife.

I don't eat animals. I rescue strays and take injured pigeons to the wildlife rehab. I carry spiders and wasps outside in a cup covered with a 3x5 card. It would only follow that I'd take pause when contemplating the abrupt and apparently brutal ending of a tiny human being's life, or even a potential human being's life.

'Power Play' is a morality tale for our post-Enron world and - not incidentally - wildly entertaining. Nothing wrong with that.

If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am not for others, what am I? And if not now, when?

History will decide if I'm a villain or a hero.

If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything.

However good a Constitution may be, if those who are implementing it are not good, it will prove to be bad. However bad a Constitution may be, if those implementing it are good, it will prove to be good.

Those who play with the devil's toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.

Journalism will kill you, but it will keep you alive while you're at it.

I believe in karma; what you do will come back.

In order to do good, a man must be good; and he will not be good except he have instruction by counsel and by example.

Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.

Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.

He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.

He who is not a good servant will not be a good master.

The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: 'If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?' But... the good Samaritan reversed the question: 'If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?'

William Andrews Clark was caught in a bribery scandal during a campaign for the U.S. Senate - he was said to describe the Montana legislators this way: 'I never bought a man who wasn't for sale.'

I think it's no accident that a number of coaches and personnel guys have come out of William and Mary. To me, it's a credit to the type of program Coach Laycock runs. There are set rules, there is clarity when it comes to expectations. You're expected to go to class and be a student-athlete. There are no cutting corners.

For a man who purports to have learned of media ethics only this month, Mr. Williams has spent an undue amount of time appearing as a media ethicist on both CNN and the cable news networks of NBC.

I always turn to Wendy Williams when there's any type of ethical or moral crisis in our country.

Great leaders are willing to sacrifice the numbers to save the people. Poor leaders sacrifice the people to save the numbers.

I don't want to live in a society that does these sort of things... I do not want to live in a world where everything I do and say is recorded. That is not something I am willing to support or live under.

You've got to do what's right, or what you think is right. And you've got to make tough decisions. And you've got to be willing to take on your friends when you disagree with them.

A responsible choice is a choice that creates consequences that you are willing to assume responsibility for.