Quotes About Ethics

I have always thought it morally unacceptable to kill stories, not to run stories, that people have risked their lives to get.

The liberation of those who commit murder and terrorism is unacceptable.

Who are the governing bodies to say what is a good and a bad behaviour? I think that's unacceptable, even from an ethical point of view. I don't think anyone on this planet should be able to point at people and say this. For example, if it's not dangerous for other people, you should be allowed to break a racket. It's my racket, it's my problem.

A mistake is always forgivable, rarely excusable and always unacceptable.

It is unacceptable, it is forbidden, to harm the innocent.

Today, it is research with human embryonic stem cells and attempts to prepare cloned stem cells for research and medical therapies that are being disavowed as being ethically unacceptable.

To admit guilt for nonexistent crimes is unacceptable to me.

It is absolutely unacceptable to think that in the last year of the president's term, that he should stop doing his job, and he won't.

It's unacceptable to tour using non-environmentally friendly fuel when there are alternatives.

To permit a private or industrial actor to knowingly pollute our groundwater is unacceptable, and I do not believe in passing the buck to our children and grandchildren.

CBS's Ed Murrow may have been over-celebrated as the principled observer for the masses, fair yet unafraid to take on the bullies.

The science is settled; it's not even a consensus, it is a unanimity that human life begins at conception.

An ignorant person with a bad character is like an unarmed robber, but a learned person with a blog is a robber fully armed.

It takes minutes to play, but 'Unmanned' sticks with you for long after the credits roll. As a part of a two-man team for an unarmed drone, you experience one day in the life of this man who's tired of staring through the camera of a drone flying around the Middle East and keeping his finger on the trigger.

A very Faustian choice is upon us: whether to accept our corrosive and risky behavior as the unavoidable price of population and economic growth, or to take stock of ourselves and search for a new environmental ethic.

Journalists play God when they decide for their readers when to hide information from them. Frequently, those choices are unavoidable.

I am not unaware that leaders betray, and sell out, and play false.

It is difficult to believe that parties are unaware of the crimes that their M.P.'s are committing. But there is no effort to take action against them, till they are caught and publicly exposed.

The scales of justice often, in my head, are unbalanced. And so my job is to try to balance out those scales.

To take part in this brothel through the payment of my taxes, that had become to me unbearable.

It's really amazing that in the age of unbelief, as a smart man called it, there isn't even more fraud. After all, with no God, there's no one to ever call you to account, and no accounting at all if you can get away with it.

What is indisputable is the fact that unbelief is the force that gives birth to all of our bad behavior and every moral failure. It is the root.

I have nowhere claimed nor even implied that unbelief is a guarantee of good conduct or even an indicator of it.

For me to bully anybody, that sounds unbelievable.