Quotes About Ethics

When we anthropomorphize the egg and sperm, when we turn them into a miniature bride and groom complete with personalities, what effect does this have on abortion legislation?

You don't want your credibility banana to turn brown, but you do want to speak out about what you believe in.

I would say issues around human rights - either you're going to take a hard stance, or you're not. You can't borrow money from China the way the U.S. has done and then turn around and say, 'But you've got a human-rights problem.' You can't be half pregnant.

Sometimes songwriting can turn into a gossip column, and I try to avoid that as much as I can.

I turn down invitations to events where I know there will be politicians.

I have a conscience about my work and try to turn out a good piece of craftsmanship.

There's nothing cure or funny or lovable about being cheap. It's a total turn-off.

I have turned down a lot of money for things that would have made me feel cheesy.

We will be judged. There will be an accounting; there will be a reckoning sooner or later. It will either come from ourselves and our own conscience, or it will come from our kids when they ask that inconvenient question: 'What were you doing when they turned those kids back from the border?'

I protest that if some great Power would agree to make me always think what is true and do what is right, on condition of being turned into a sort of clock and would up every morning before I got out of bed, I should instantly close with the offer.

I've turned down projects based on raunchiness before.

I lost agents and managers because I turned down big movies that were smutty.

Cloning represents a very clear, powerful, and immediate example in which we are in danger of turning procreation into manufacture.

I was turning down cigarette campaigns before it became fashionable. I wouldn't let CBS Radio sell 'The Stan Freberg Show' to R.J. Reynolds and American Tobacco, which had sponsored Jack Benny, the man I replaced.

A computer, by definition, cannot be held accountable for anything because there is no mechanism to hold it to account, short of turning off the electricity supply or destroying the hardware. Only humans can be accountable.

Contemporary paganism gives me a subjective lens through which the world in which I live can be interpreted on an aesthetic and an ethical basis. I'm interested in narrative, myth, and story, in folklore and the way we connect to the turning of the seasons and the natural world.

Our knowledge of animals and their behaviour has come a long way. We can no longer justify imprisoning them, robbing them of everything that is natural and important to them and turning them into objects of ridicule for our amusement.

Now there are two or three teams who are very ethical in their outlook who have opened up the economic benefits and that is probably going to be a turning point in the sport.

Buddhism talks about the possibility of transforming greed, hatred, and delusion. But sometimes need turns into greed.

You cannot afford a world with slavery, which literally takes someone and turns them into a machine.

Matters of taste are not, it turns out, moral issues.

In Rio de Janeiro, every cop has to make a choice. He either turns dirty, keeps his mouth shut, or goes to war.

If evil is empathy erosion, and empathy erosion is a form of illness, then evil turns out to be nothing more than a particularly awful psychological disorder.

We have got to stop being a society that turns our heads and looks the other way.