Quotes About Ethics

There are times in politics when you must be on the right side and lose.

Neutrality is at times a graver sin than belligerence.

I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death.

We wouldn't have to speak so critically if businesses would stop feeding dead animals to live ones, putting non-food substances into food, tinkering with genetic codes, and spraying the countryside with poisons.

To compromise simply means that you go a tiny bit below what you know is right.

I felt very strongly about the Ashley Madison thing. Of the 39 million people who signed up for Ashley Madison, only a tiny percentage of them actually had an affair. And I'd go a step further and say even if they did, it's none of our business, frankly.

I got fired for giving coffee away. It was just my regulars. I'd say, 'Don't worry about it,' and they'd put down a dollar tip. Technically, I was stealing. Ethically, I was boosting morale!

I want nothing for myself from being Governor. I don't take a salary or PEIA, I don't need business connections or the next hot tip. I drive myself everywhere I go, without taking a dime from the state.

A couple of Astros players told me I was tipping pitches, but now it comes out they were stealing signs. Was I tipping, or were they stealing?

As our society tips toward one based on data, our collective decisions around how that data can be used will determine what kind of a culture we live in.

Online journalism has always had a sourcing problem. From using unverified 'anonymous tips' to repeating whatever rumor or speculation people are chattering about, the general ethic is, 'We'll publish just about anything.'

As a Fox News Channel contributor, I've learned most of the tips over the years: look into the camera like it's a good friend; pull your suit jacket down and sit on it so it doesn't bunch up; and most importantly, never, ever say anything while sitting in that studio that you wouldn't want someone else to hear.

I'm tired of this discussion of capitalism and socialism; we live in the 21st century, we need an economic system that has democracy as its underpinnings and an ethical code.

Are you sick and tired of these moralizing moralizers imposing their morality on the rest of us? I know I am.

Here's what I don't think works: An economic system that was founded in the 16th century and another that was founded in the 19th century. I'm tired of this discussion of capitalism and socialism; we live in the 21st century; we need an economic system that has democracy as its underpinnings and an ethical code.

You don't just one day say, 'That's it, I'm doing this, I'm going to throw all my shoes out and I'm not eating honey and I won't drive my car because there are animal bones in the tires...' because you'd drive yourself around the bend.

'Tis no sin to cheat the devil.

Tis not what man Does which exalts him, but what man Would do!

'Tis better to suffer wrong than do it.

'Tis one thing to be tempted, another thing to fall.

Your women of honor, as you call em, are only chary of their reputations, not their persons; and 'Tis scandal that they would avoid, not men.

Who will wear a shoe that hurts him, because the shoe-maker tells him 'tis well made?

In America, we are selling fetal tissue to be used in: the manufacture of cosmetics as well as for medical research.

My principles are more important than the money or my title.