[Barack] Obama's executive amnesty has been frozen via a stay by a judge on the appellate court. You remember, this is the judge that discovered the Defense Department lawyers were lying to him in open court, and instead of actually sanctioning them, he demanded that they go to a new ethics course to learn the proper behavior and decorum and the law in court, that you just can't lie with impunity to a judge.
The needs of a society determine its ethics.
The unhappy theory of business ethics is this: you have a fiduciary responsibility to maximize profit. Period. To do anything other than that is to cheat your investors. And in a competitive world, you don't have much wiggle room here.
No artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style.
Every man, in his own opinion, forms an exception to the ordinary rules of morality.
Accepting evolution does not force us to jettison our morals and ethics, and rejecting evolution does not ensure their constancy.
The novel is a penetrating study of morals and ethics.
Any philosophy that can be put in a nutshell belongs there.
Both wit and understanding are trifles without integrity.
Technology must be guided and driven by ethics if it is to do more than provide new toys for the rich.
Using the phrase business ethics might imply that the ethical rules and expectations are somehow different in business than in other contexts. There really is no such thing as business ethics. There is just ethics and the challenge for people in business and every other walk in life to acknowledge and live up to basic moral principles like honesty, respect, responsibility, fairness and caring.
Yes I pay taxes. . . There are no ethics in the face of coercion, that is blaming the victim. Focus on the man with the gun, not the man in the crosshairs trying to survive.
We must confront the world now with an ethics to make it tremble, and with a dynamic to give it hope
I am not sure whether ethical absolutes exist. But I am sure that we have to act as if they existed or civilization perishes.
The summum bonum of this [Puritan] ethic is the earning of more and more money combined with the strict avoidance of all enjoyment.
It's possible to disagree with someone about the ethics of non-violence without wanting to kick his face in.
To be more precise, it's ethics and liberation, and as a consequence there is an ethics of liberation.
Ethics is doing more than the law requires and less than the law allows.
In many ways, our campaign this year will be the same as last time: We're still going to focus on fixing up basics and cleaning up ethics at City Hall.
Science has taught us how to put the atom to work. But to make it work for good instead of for evil lies in the domain dealing with the principles of human duty. We are now facing a problem more of ethics than physics.