Quotes about Ethics

"There is no such thing as a minor lapse of integrity."
-Tom Peters

"Just being honest is not enough. The essential ingredient is executive integrity."
-Philip Crosby

"Our identities have no bodies, so, unlike you, we cannot obtain order by physical coercion. We believe that from ethics, enlightened self-interest, and the commonweal, our governance will emerge."
-John Perry Barlow

"Every man, at the bottom of his heart, wants to do right. But only he can do right who knows right; only he knows right who thinks right; only he thinks right who believes right."
-Tiorio

"Even the most rational approach to ethics is defenseless if there isn't the will to do what is right."
-Alexander Solzhenitsyn

"It is nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice."
-John Templeton

"You are already of consequence in the world if you are known as a man of strict integrity."
-Grenville Kleiser

"Subtlety may deceive you; integrity never will."
-Oliver Goldsmith

"Every man has the right to life, to bodily integrity."
-Pope John Xxiii

"In civilized life, law floats in a sea of ethics."
-Earl Warren

"Integrity can be neither lost nor concealed nor faked nor quenched nor artificially come by nor outlived, nor, I believe, in the long run, denied."
-Eudora Welty

"But as in ethics, evil is a consequence of good, so, in fact, out of joy is sorrow born."
-Edgar Allan Poe

"There is only one ethics, one set of rules of morality, one code: That of individual behavior in which the same rules apply to everyone alike."
-Peter F. Drucker

"We believe we will see improvement in the ethics and integrity of city government."
-Richard M. Daley

"I believe that the Blade has shown a serious lack of dedication to journalistic ethics."
-Michael Brooks

"We're looking at the code of ethics and the code for advertising vehicles for this particular complaint."
-Hilary Souter

"Ethics are so annoying. I avoid them on principle."
-Darby Conley

"Whether they're able to do under the ethics statute or not, it's a plain conflict of interest."
-Janet Howard

"The equipment cost is 90 percent. That gives you an idea of how much Audio Ethics (the contractor) has helped us."
-Don Rushing

"We follow the ethics of our British friends with some anxiety."
-Istvan Gyulai

"Our very lives depend on the ethics of strangers, and most of us are always strangers to other people."
-Bill Moyers

"Whether gods exist or not, there is no way to get absolute certainty about ethics. Without absolute certainty, what do we do? We do the best we can."
-Richard Stallman

"If transparency in government is not ethics, then I don't know what is."
-Frank Gibson

"Plagiarism is the capital crime in academics. There's no reason to believe that Princeton is a bastion of ethics."
-John Barrie

"Felton has one of the best work ethics I have ever been around. If anyone can break both of them, it would be him."
-Dan Epstein

"A pollster needs to have ethics."
-Pavich Thongroj

"Our client's doctors' behavior goes against established medical ethics and violates California civil rights law."
-Jennifer Pizer

"I have limited expectations for both the House and Senate ethics committees."
-Craig Holman