Quotes About Ethics

Sometimes people say things on the field that they might regret, but they should stay on the field.

I have no regrets because I did everything by the book.

If you had special powers, it wouldn't be all fun and games. There would be regrets for things you've done.

My relationship with Salman Khan is too personal to talk about. I take my work like any other regular job, and what I do in my personal life is no one's business. I'd rather let my work do all the talking.

Sarah Huckabee Sanders lies on a regular basis.

There's a bigger percentage of good cops than bad cops. But the bad cops should be penalised like regular people.

As a journalist, your words are regularly read by lots of people, but they're not your words: they're someone else's. You're quoting people.

We don't know what proportion of public funds is regularly lost to collusion and corruption. Is it 25 per cent? 30 per cent? We do know that a portion of these public funds are feeding organized crime.

It is quite wrong that one group of people should regularly and deliberately flout the law, boast about it and get away with it.

You can't regulate every lab in the world.

Capitalism is an evil, and you cannot regulate evil.

Modi government has not flouted any rule or regulation to help anyone.

Regulation creates a moral hazard.

Like most other states, Illinois has little regulation of the economic interests of legislators and relies on public disclosure to keep the lawmaking honest.

We don't need any more regulation from government. You don't need overarching moralism to tell you how to live because human beings actually have a pretty well-developed moral center. The more government intrudes on the basic decisions you make, the further away you get from your natural morality.

When it comes to environmental regulation, the cruelty is the point.

I don't really like the word 'religion.' To me, that's like rules and regulations and paying money to send up prayers. That kind of all weirds me out, honestly.

Culture is more important than rules and regulations.

I believe that the financial crisis of 2008/9 exposed more a lack of ethics and morality - especially by the financial sector - rather than a problem of regulation or criminality. There were, of course, regulatory lessons to be learned, but at heart, there was a collective loss of our moral compass.

Regulatory failings mean that the cost of breaking the law is far below that of obeying it - businesses are happier to pay fines than to control pollution.

Particularly when it comes to the regulatory environment, being a jerk doesn't actually get you very far.

CEOs must go beyond working with policy-makers on new regulatory frameworks. They must also commit to the principle that success cannot be measured by profitability and growth alone.

We didn't have parents who let us get away with anything. We grew up here with privilege, and we never got a D.U.I., we never went to rehab, we never got pregnant.

We simply have to reign in the piggish people and money-hungry lawyers who chase every ambulance they see and expect companies and individuals to pay for everything that goes wrong.