Quotes About Ethics

Media organizations are frequently criticized for a heartless approach to the news. Stories that are damaging to a person's reputation make the front page just as quickly - and many would say even more quickly - as stories that enhance it.

It's a very lovely reputation to have - being a kind person. I try to live up to the fact that people think that about me.

The money is important in life, but the money is not everything. I don't want to sell myself for money. I don't want to sell my reputation for money.

I do not want to gain a reputation for lacking discipline because I always look to play within the laws.

In Denver, if you get a reputation for being too competitive, people don't want to play with you or do business with you.

I feel like I'm going to have a long career and you don't want to get a bad reputation for certain things.

I never thought I'd have to be fighting for my reputation and the poor horse's reputation.

I have never lied on anyone to disrepute or sully their reputation for the sake of revenge.

My humble request to journalists - It only takes one phone call or an email to check facts.

People can hold any opinion that they want on any subject that they choose. Just don't proactively lie to people. It's a simple request, really, and one that we don't hear nearly enough.

Large corporations, of course, are blinded by greed. The laws under which they operate require it - their shareholders would revolt at anything less.

One of the problems we currently have is there hasn't been in the population any serious engagement with the ethics of war because we have an all-volunteer army. I would think the return to the draft would be an intervention that would require discussion that might be more helpful in terms of our ability to limit war.

'Competent counsel' ought to require more than a human being with a law license and a pulse.

Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself.

Informed consent is required for every invasive medical procedure, from getting your ears pierced to having an abortion.

But our leaders of today have decided it's more important to be popular, to say and do what's easy, and say yes rather than to say no, when no is what is required.

Humans are something very different from animals, and the numbers required to get cloning to work in animals are completely prohibitory with humans.

I have had to make a decision I may not agree with, but I am required to follow the letter of the law. It is not my job to think what is best... My responsibility is to decide what the law says and to decide to the law.

That's why it has to be a nonprofit, because a nonprofit is required to take monies it receives and use them for the purposes for which it's chartered by the government. It can't be pocketed.

Columnists must make sure that when they describe an event, they are being accurate in their description. When they quote someone, they are required to do so accurately. Errors that are made must be corrected openly and quickly.

I have gone to great lengths, and in some cases beyond what is required by the reporting guidelines to ensure all of my filings are beyond reproach, by hiring an independent third-party accounting firm to review and audit all of my previous annual financial disclosures.

The course I teach, Professional Responsibility, was brought into law-school curriculums and required by most states for admission to the bar beginning in the 1970s.

I refused 'Chatuskone,' as I was required to wear revealing outfits and enact a few intimate scenes, which I was not comfortable with.

I almost can't believe this even needs to be said, but it's not unwarranted to burden retirement advisers with a requirement that they act in their clients' best interest.