Quotes About Ethics

We become moral when we are unhappy.

The only time I am an unhappy camper is when I feel like I'm treated unfairly.

I don't want my child to have unhealthy values.

There are potentially many offences that journalists could commit in the course of their business. It would be very unhealthy if you had a situation where a journalist felt that they needed to go to their lawyer before they pursued any lead or asked any question.

Those who are not giving up their nefarious activities even in the holy month of Ramzan, should their activities not be called unholy?

All children, regardless of their income, ethnicity, or geography have the right to be protected and be given the opportunity to reach their full potential, which is why our global HSNi Cares partner is the U.S. Fund for UNICEF.

The ethical manifold, conceived of as unified, furnishes, or rather is, the ideal of the whole.

Without a unified political climate of opinion, there is little or no political profit in doing the right thing.

If our men and women in uniform are restricted from buying first-class airfare, the same should apply to Congress.

Leaders in Africa are so corrupt that we are certain if we put dogs in uniforms and put guns on their shoulders, we'd be hard put to distinguish them.

Actually, the notion of what is acceptable for a moral government to do seems to have eroded in some ways since 9-11. Not to get too political here, but countries, including our own, seem to have accepted what was once almost unimaginable - condoning torture, for example, and even criminalizing peaceful protest.

In an ideal world, you don't want creatures where they shouldn't be because there's always unintended consequences.

Right after my Twin Towers walk, I was approached by hundreds of people, and I said no to all the offers. I could have become a millionaire overnight, obviously, but I said no, and I continue to be uninterested.

I've always been really uninterested in politicians and the acts of the Houses of Parliament, or government as an idea. But I'm interested in politics in that I'm a member of the world, and I have strong feelings of right and wrong, but I can't get into the ins and outs of it.

Oregon is the only state in the union that facilitates suicide.

When I handed over the names and compromised so many CIA agents in the Soviet Union, I had come to the conclusion that the loss of these sources to the U.S. would not compromise significant national defense, political, diplomatic interests.

We're a country that allowed waterboarding and indefinite detention, and we're a country where the NYPD Intelligence Division has police files on what Muslims think of the State of the Union address.

The Democratic Party takes huge amounts of cash from corporations and unions to vote a certain way.

Now an embryo may seem like some scientific or laboratory term, but in fact the embryo contains the unique information that defines a person. All you add is food and climate control, and some time, and the embryo becomes you or me.

We at the NRA embrace and hold dear what makes us uniquely American. Family, responsibility, patriotism, mutual respect, honesty, civic duty.

In a science fiction film, you're uniquely responsible to pay respect to the science represented in the movie.

When I was attorney general, we had the strongest public integrity unit in the country.

Morality crusades unite military regimes and religious zealots alike.

When law and duty are one, united by religion, you never become fully conscious, fully aware of yourself. You are always a little less than an individual.