The real problem is in the hearts and minds of men. It is not a problem of physics but of ethics. It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil from the spirit of man.
—Albert Einstein
Stripped of ethical rationalizations and philosophical pretensions, a crime is anything that a group in power chooses to prohibit.
—Freda Adler
Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.
—Isaac Asimov
I believe that professional wrestling is clean and everything else in the world is fixed.
—Frank Deford
That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.
—William J. H. Boetcker
The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves.
—Ray Kroc
A man's respect for law and order exists in precise relationship to the size of his paycheck.
—Adam Clayton Powell Jr.
Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind.
—Albert Schweitzer
The stress laid on upward social mobility in the United States has tended to obscure the fact that there can be more than one kind of mobility and more than one direction in which it can go. There can be ethical mobility as well as financial, and it can go down as well as up.
—Margaret Halsey
Laws bind us. But it is important to remember the law is only what is popular. Not what's right or wrong.
—Marilyn Manson
What is the difference between unethical and ethical advertising? Unethical advertising uses falsehoods to deceive the public; ethical advertising uses truth to deceive the public.
—Vilhjalmur Stefansson
Personally I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject for an "ethic.
—Barbara Ehrenreich
If it is not right, do not do it; if it is not true, do not say it.
—Marcus Aurelius
Ethics are so annoying. I avoid them on principle.
—Darby Conley