Quotes About Ethics

I'm a lot of things but not a liar or a phony, even when I know it's in my best interest to be.

Commercials were too phony for me. I just didn't like selling products I didn't believe in.

I worry about Google's data ethics and about the idea of handing over the corpus of my life, but I can't deny that it is exceptional at making sense of my ever-growing photo library.

One person can take papers, photograph them without getting excited, return them, and give them away without any scruples; while someone else has to overcome an enormous obstacle.

I don't think that there's anything that we shouldn't be allowed to photograph, really, unless there's something that's really deeply harmful to the subject in the photograph.

My only rule: I never photographed the face of the dead, ever, out of respect for the families.

As a photographer, there are times when I have to decide if it's appropriate to invade a moment with my camera.

While photographs may not lie, liars may photograph.

I always take photographs when I attend a funeral. Most people there know who I am and expect me to be there with my camera.

But empirically I've come to understand that my photographs really don't do any harm.

The newspapers turn a blind eye to how they get their material as long as they have great photographs.

I mean, taking photographs is a very nasty thing to do. It's very cruel.

Photography is, by its nature, exploitative. It's whether you use this process with a sense of responsibility or not. I feel that I do so. My conscience is clear.

Photography has always been capable of manipulation.

I just don't like to do photography for money.

I don't share photos of people grieving leaving a funeral or outside of a hospital when a loved one is sick... You can do your job and have an opinion and have it be strong, but not be hurtful or cruel.

It is immoral to brand children with religion. 'This is a Catholic child.' 'That is a Muslim child.' I want everyone to flinch when they hear such a phrase, just as they would if they heard, 'That is a Marxist child.'

In the 1920s and 1930s, scientists from both the political left and right would not have found the idea of designer babies particularly dangerous - though, of course, they would not have used that phrase.

I don't believe in data-driven anything, it's the most stupid phrase. Data should always serve people, people should never serve data.

If there was no moral evil upon earth, there would be no physical evil.

I learned that moral courage is harder than physical courage.

In abortion, the person who is massacred, physically and morally, is the woman.

As a physician, I would never encroach upon the religious freedoms of my patients.

Did you know that there was a study in 1961 that found that 90 percent of physicians wouldn't tell you if you were diagnosed with cancer?