Quotes About Ethics

Many people say the privatisation was unfair: that is true - it was unfair. That is a fact: some people became rich and others did not. Unfair does not mean illegal, but it was inevitably unfair.

Unfair trade practices should be regulated because they're unfair.

If an athlete takes a shortcut - literally, for example, by running a street that shortens the marathon route by a quarter mile - he or she doesn't have an insurmountable advantage. But it's an unfair advantage, and in a field of equally matched athletes, it's more than enough to make a difference.

It is unfair to suppose that one party has invariably acted rightly, and that the other is responsible for every wrong that has been committed.

The death tax is unfair, inefficient, economically unsound and, frankly, immoral.

How can you allow the trading companies to locate computers closer to exchanges and flash millions of bids to give an unfair advantage?... Even professionals are losing faith in some aspects of the system.

The long and distressing controversy over capital punishment is very unfair to anyone meditating murder.

The College Board is both in the business of test administration and test prep. If this feels inherently unfair, it should - it's like a doctor whacking your knee with a sledgehammer and then offering to patch you up.

I cannot be music director at La Scala and at Staatsoper. This would be unfair to one of the two institutions.

While it can feel unfair to have to make a career decision because of a morally deficient boss, doing so can sometimes lead you in the right direction, if a bit faster than you otherwise would have preferred.

My grandfather was a civil servant. He was honest, so it would be unfair to say we enjoyed the perils of richness.

We can prevent unfair advantage, and we can avoid the destabilizing effect that high frequency trading can have.

It's the meanest thing to abuse your power as a songwriter. To write pointedly about someone... it's kind of unfair to use them. They can't answer you or have a rebuttal.

I do feel infuriated by the things I perceive to be unfair.

Things are fair and unfair, whichever profession you take. Every profession cannot have a 100% rate of fairness.

I cannot stand unfairness.

All is disgust when a man leaves his own nature and does what is unfit.

It seems that if you put people on paper and move them through time, you cannot help but talk about ethics, because the ethical realm exists nowhere if not here: in the consequences of human actions as they unfold in time, and the multiple interpretive possibility of those actions.

It seems obvious that moral stages must primarily be the products of the child's interaction with others rather than the direct unfolding of biological or neurological structures.

One of the key issues will be personal honour vs. the good of the many, and unforeseen consequences.

I'm just in an unfortunate business where if you ask me a question I have to answer it honestly and if I don't answer it truthfully then I'm not respected.

Every unfortunate event does not give rise to lawsuit.

It's always unfortunate when a reporter is sent behind bars for failing to turn over sources. There's no way to say what the long-term outcome will be.

I feel like I delivered a blow, an unfortunate blow to a profession that not only did I personally love doing but that I value for society.