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Quotes About Ethics

This is sort of typical Hillary Clinton: to do things that are not legal, to say that they are, and then try to cover them up. Hillary Clinton severely chastised other whistleblowers for using Internet channels that were not secure, and yet she herself was doing that with private, high-level State Department information.
~ Jill Stein
My grandparents came from a typical Marathi family, where they respect the value of rules and regulations.
~ Mithila Palkar
Corruption is just another form of tyranny.
~ Joe Biden
To set up as a standard of public morality a notion which can neither be defined nor conceived is to open the door to every kind of tyranny.
~ Simone Weil
If we must have a tyrant, let him at least be a gentleman who has been bred to the business, and let us fall by the axe and not by the butcher's cleaver.
~ Lord Byron
I am not a big fan of Mike Tyson. I almost idolized him for what he did in the ring - he was such a great fighter. But his behavior out of the ring... he needed to realize he was in the public eye, and there is a responsibility.
~ Tommy Morrison
It's time to join the ranks of nations that have put the ugliness of capital punishment behind them.
~ Pete Buttigieg
Business should never be allowed to justify mean, thug ugly deals for any reason.
~ Ralph Steadman
Some people are money hungry and don't stop to think of who they're affecting and what really matters. There's a lot of ugly.
~ Sasha Lane
If you find someone attractive, you try to make them find you attractive. That is called seduction. And seduction is a bit ugly. You could say it's a bit ugly to use your charisma.
~ Jonathan King
My shareholders expect me to make the most profit. That's the ugly, dirty truth.
~ Martin Shkreli
People can call me what they like - fat, ugly, sour - but tell me I'm not fair, tell me I'm not ethical, those are the things that bother me.
~ Deborah Meaden
Everyone assumes I practise all of my own laws but I don't. I think anybody who did would be a horrible ugly person to be around.
~ Robert Greene
If you're in charge of managing domain name space you should treat everybody who asks for a registration the same. Whatever that is - whether it's nice or ugly or whatever - just be fair, treat them all the same.
~ Jon Postel
Getting back to the point, a guy like Jerry, he deals with the business, and he doesn't see it as being evil or ugly, it's what you have to do, and I mean I know there's some really ugly parts to it and parts which drive me nuts, but not in the same way as music business.
~ Trevor Rabin
Corporations take the humanity out of trade - they take the happiness out and replace it with something that is ugly.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
There's no difference if you're a supermodel or if you've lost both your legs. What are you doing that's beautiful or ugly on the inside?
~ Nikki Sixx
It's hard to say how far we are down the road to our conventional understanding of artificial intelligence, but I think what we've developed so far, if it's not already consciously awake and hiding from us because it's seen what an ugly and destructive race we are, and it's trying to preserve itself, it's probably in a state of dreaming.
~ Jack Reynor
The business part of the game is ugly.
~ Max Scherzer
Nobody wants to pay to see a real chick fight because it's ugly and it doesn't sell.
~ Ivory
God don't like ugly.
~ Jermaine O'Neal
People are willing to do really ugly things if lots of other people are also doing them.
~ Christopher Wylie
I would not rule out going to Israel because I disapprove of the foreign policy any more than I would refuse to play in the UK because I disapprove of Tony Blair's foreign policy.
~ Roger Waters
If Trump's talking to Putin can help end the bloodshed in Ukraine or Syria, it would appear to be at least as ethical an act as pulpiteering about our moral superiority on the Sunday talk shows.
~ Pat Buchanan