Quotes About Ethics

Justice can rarely exist without honesty.

But in this Congress, accountability is just a catch phrase, usually directed elsewhere. Demands to personal responsibility or corporate accountability abound, but rarely congressional accountability or fiscal responsibility.

Much like the death sentence, I believe, hidden cameras should be used in the 'rarest of rare' cases.

It's a rarity in this sport that you really get a guy that's not a good person. I think we've found that in Matt Hughes.

How could you be from the ghetto and be a rat?

What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.

Do I favor the death penalty? Theoretically, I do, but when you realize that there's a 4 percent error rate, you end up putting guilty people to death.

I prefer to be a good human being rather than a good character on screen.

I would rather be ignorant than knowledgeable of evils.

I'd rather not have anything than be a liar.

I would rather be politically dead than hypocritically immortalized.

The biases the media has are much bigger than conservative or liberal. They're about getting ratings, about making money, about doing stories that are easy to cover.

It seems to me we are losing our way in an effort to get the ratings.

I hired Sarah Palin because she was hot and got ratings.

The decision is not whether or not we will ration care. The decision will be whether we ration care with our eyes open.

A man has free choice to the extent that he is rational.

No crime can ever be defended on rational grounds.

Being able and willing to complain is what makes us rational and moral animals, capable of seeing and articulating the difference between how things are and how they should be.

Legal behavior is not incompatible with rational, self-interested behavior.

I think political parties can be funded in a perfectly rational way without being corrupt.

Your ability to rationalize your own bad deeds makes you believe that the whole world is as amoral as you are.

I'm not interested in constraining human beings like rats in a laboratory.

Documentary makers use other people's lives as their raw material, and that is morally indefensible.

If we use goods made from raw materials that are obtained from a poor country without the proceeds being used to benefit the people of that country, we become complicit in a particularly iniquitous form of grand larceny.