George Soros Quotes

Do what's right and you'll please some of the people and astound the rest.

I do feel a responsibility to address things that are problematic, but I don't have to go out of my way to do that.

If kids can have some sort of social responsibility, that's cool. But if they're not actually having social responsibility, and they're kind of hiding behind it, that's kind of useless, or even worse.

It's a full on job just looking for human social responsibility.

I have never taken a job or done a job where I felt I needed to leave my conscience at the door. One of the the great things about not being in politics as a career is that I can do this job without thinking about my career. I can think about what we're trying to do, what we're trying to accomplish and what we're trying to leave.

Football has an important role to play in society. Players should have a sense of social responsibility, have a moral dimension to them which shows up in good conduct.

We don't consider the roles that we're taking in making the world the way it is.

When moral principles, rather than persons, are candidates for power, to vote is to perform a moral duty, and not to vote is to neglect a duty

It is the essence of responsibility to put the public good ahead of personal gain.

I've always believed that our public actions need to take account of our social responsibility.

No matter how you seem to fatten on a crime, there can never be good for the bee which is bad for the hive.

Real morality is possible when the sanctions for morality are also tangible and real. Therefore, atheism shifts the basis of morality from faith in god to obligations of social living. Moral conduct is not a passport to heaven; it is social necessity.

Life is moral responsibility.

May we be people of honesty and integrity trying to do the right thing at all times and in all circumstances.

There can be no question of holding forth on ethics. I have seen people behave badly with great morality and I note every day that integrity has no need of rules

As an anonymous participant in financial markets, I never had to weigh the social consequences of my actions ... I felt justified in ignoring them on the grounds that I was playing by the rules.

Civilization is that mode of conduct which points out to man the path of duty.

You can't run a society or cope with its problems if people are not held accountable for what they do.

Principles do not mainly influence even the principled; we talk on principle, but we act on interest.

Those in pursuit of Why are inspired to do what is right. Those in pursuit of What are driven to do what is easy.

The only people who need to be "giving back" are thieves, criminals and corrupt individuals that are taking things that are not theirs.

I feel like I've always played within the rules. I would never do anything to break the rules. I believe in fair play.

"Am I my brother's keeper?" There you have the whole Biblical understanding that you are your brother's keeper. You also have a whole other understanding in which you are not your brother's keeper. And I've heard some extremely bright people take this position.

Ethics is inescapable.

For no phase of life, whether public or private, whether in business or in the home, whether one is working on what concerns oneself alone or dealing with another, can be without its moral duty; on the discharge of such duties depends all that is morally right, and on their neglect all that is morally wrong in life.