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Quotes About Ethics

Obviously, if I cared about what people said about my reporting, I wouldn't be a good journalist.
~ Sharyl Attkisson
So many reporters have blurred the line between reporting and editorializing.
~ Andrew R. Wheeler
On the golf course, playing cards, running to the casinos, betting on college and pro football, it keeps spilling over to the next step, the next step, the next step. I basically started giving people information that I was receiving in the locker room, injury reports.
~ Tim Donaghy
The omission of good is no less reprehensible than the commission of evil.
~ Plutarch
Kathleen Wynne and her band of radical-left cronies think they have a handle on what constitutes human identity and also what should constitute human morality. And I think that that's being pushed in a manner in schools that's completely reprehensible. It's not education, in my estimation. It's a form of indoctrination.
~ Jordan Peterson
If you know something is morally reprehensible, then it is your moral obligation to stop it as soon as possible.
~ Jane Velez-Mitchell
If you choose to put political expediency and politics ahead of the men and women on the ground, for that, you'll have to answer to yourself. I find it morally reprehensible.
~ Mike Pompeo
Some of my instincts are reprehensible.
~ William F. Buckley, Jr.
I find revealing the secrets of magic quite reprehensible.
~ David Copperfield
I can't tell you how many times I've had conversations with politicians who've done something morally reprehensible but not indictable, yet still think they should be able to stay in office. The office isn't a 'right.' It's a kind of loan.
~ Gail Collins
An ethical man doesn't need a consensus of his allies in order to act against something he finds reprehensible.
~ Joseph Brodsky
I happen to represent Enron here in Houston. We have many good corporate citizens here in Houston. Enron happened to have been one.
~ Sheila Jackson Lee
Of course I do not regret the Bond days, I regret that sadly heroes in general are depicted with guns in their hands, and to tell the truth I have always hated guns and what they represent.
~ Roger Moore
Is there anyone I wouldn't take as a client? Well, I'd never represent a banker.
~ Gerry Spence
Muslims around the world deserve to see birthplace of Islam represent the ethics of Islam.
~ Jamal Khashoggi
The belt doesn't represent me; it's how you deal with people, how you represent yourself as a champion. The belt is a sign of a champion, but what makes a champion is the things I have just said.
~ Anthony Joshua
If I can convince people that good people don't do attack ads, and that we want good people to represent us, then the attack ads work against themselves.
~ John Hickenlooper
No good is ever done to society by the pictorial representation of its diseases.
~ John Ruskin
If you're in the business of law you're in the business of representation and precedent.
~ David Lammy
I try to perform honestly during the fight, and I always remember that I'm a representative of Russia. I try not to bring any aggression. Just honesty.
~ Fedor Emelianenko
Schultz is not a Nazi. I see Schultz as the representative of some kind of goodness in any generation.
~ John Banner
When it really comes down to it, the job you do is more important and is more representative of who you are than your sexuality or anything else that you have going on in your life.
~ Michael Cudlitz
My job is to follow the law, not to make up the law that has been promulgated by the people or the people's representatives.
~ Charles T. Canady
It is our job, our responsibility as their representatives to help them. If we choose not to do that, we should not be their representatives.
~ Marcia Fudge