Quotes about Ethics

We can't allow science to undo its own good work.

We ought first to know that there are no good works except those which God has commanded, even as there is no sin except that which God has forbidden.

I have watched constantly that in our work the highest moral and spiritual standards are upheld, whether my productions deal with fable or with stories of living action.

In a way, fraud in business is no different from infidelity in marriage or plagiarism in scholarly work. Even people committed to high moral standards succumb.

The one small garden of a free gardener was all his need and due, not a garden swollen to a realm; his own hands to use, not the hands of others to command.

A task becomes a duty from the moment you suspect it to be an essential part of that integrity which alone entitles a man to assume responsibility.

Vanity asks, is it popular? Politics ask, will it work? But conscience and morality ask, is it right?

Productiveness is your acceptance of morality, your recognition of the fact that you choose to live.

Gambling with cards or dice or stocks is all one thing. It's getting money without giving an equivalent for it.

Gambling with cards or dice or stocks is all one thing. It's getting money without giving an equivalent for it.

I will not comment on or confirm what are alleged to be stolen State Department cables. But I can say that the United States deeply regrets the disclosure of any information that was intended to be confidential, including private discussions between counterparts or our diplomats' personal assessments and observations.

If an injustice requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law. Let your life be a counter-friction to stop the government machine.