Quotes About Ethics

Republicans are definitely pro-birth - they'll do everything they can to make sure that that baby comes out, regardless of how it got in, but are they pro-life? Can you be pro-life and vote to cut funding that supports the life of a child?

I honestly don't know how John Allen can look at himself in the mirror and say why he supports Hillary Clinton.

To suppose as we all suppose, that we could be rich and not behave as the rich behave, is like supposing that we could drink all day and stay sober.

Suppose that every prospective parent in the world stopped having children naturally, and instead produced clones of themselves. What would the world be like in another 20 or 30 years? The answer is: much like today. Cloning would only copy the genetic aspects of people who are already here.

I've never thought about it before, but I suppose bad people might need someone to pray to, too.

I do not think it possible for anyone to get by in life without prejudice. However, the attempt to do so leads many people to suppose that, in order to decide any moral question, they have to find an indubitable first principle from which they can deduce an answer.

I don't remember ever stealing things, but I suppose I was endlessly borrowing money off people.

I suppose that is my central obsession. What we owe to society, what we owe to ourselves.

Well, there's a morality in that you want your work to be good, I suppose.

When you're writing non-fiction, you go as far as you can go, and then ethically you have to stop. You can't go. You can't suppose. You can't imagine. And I think there's something in human nature that wants to finish the story.

I suppose, if helping a patient die is killing, I suppose I'm a killer.

I suppose that's why we watch dramas: to see the stuff that in real life you'd end up in prison for.

It makes me feel guilty that anybody should have such a good time doing what they are supposed to do.

I don't think I'm supposed to boss other people around just because I'm a so-called celebrity or star. I hate that when people act that way. No one deserves it. I've seen it happen. I don't call those people out - they know who they are. Some enjoy that reputation.

The real or supposed rights of man are of two kinds, active and passive; the right in certain cases to do as we list; and the right we possess to the forbearance or assistance of other men.

I'm a professional athlete - one who's supposed to set examples - so whatever it is I put in my body, it's up to me to take responsibility for it, and I have done that.

Aren't we supposed to be standing for something instead of falling for everything?

Which is supposed to mean they're doing something in their broadcasting they would not do is they were simply out to maximize profit; if they were really public service institutions, not purely profit maximizing institutions.

You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it.

Because, ultimately, we can't just think of algorithms in isolation. We have to think of the failings of the people who design them - and the danger to those they are supposedly designed to serve.

I think we are fascinated and scared by evil at the same time. I think it's important not to suppress our fascination but to walk into it with open eyes.

I would like to see capital punishment suppressed in all democracies.

Republicans support opening the floodgates to special interest money and suppressing the right to vote. It's just plain wrong.

A political party cannot have a religion. Only individuals can. Otherwise, you'd be exploiting religion, and religion is so supreme that it cannot be exploited or taken advantage of.