Quotes About Ethics

Flopping shouldn't get you nowhere.

Some people believe that you should die, and some people think dying is a nuisance. I'm one of the latter. So I think we should get rid of death.

The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.

Mistreatment of al Qaeda members and their friends and hangers-on is something I number among my moral concerns. But it's number 1,000,000,001.

That action is best which procures the greatest happiness for the greatest numbers.

A good culture in a hospital can absorb and manage a few bad nurses, but once the culture becomes bad in itself, bad nursing practice is much harder to hide.

I believe you have to nurture your conscience.

I'm actually very moral and nurturing, but I'm also adventurous. I am challenging.

Conscience. That stuff can drive you nuts.

The Hippocratic Oath says do no harm. It's the Hypocritical Oath that says do no harm to one's political future.

Look, if America - if being an American means anything, it means not having to lie under oath, not even for the president.

Lying under oath, and encouraging lies under oath, does go to the very heart and soul of what courts do. If we say we don't care, let's forget about courts, and we'll just have other ways of figuring out how to handle disputes.

I don't know anyone at the highest levels who approved Abu Ghraib. If President Barack Obama for a moment thought that somebody at a high level had approved it, he would go after them.

I mean, the whole enterprise, all of Obamacare is immoral.

I was raised with a sense of duty, obedience and guilt.

I was an attorney general. That was - that matters to me, and if you won't obey your own rules, there's no reason to think you'll obey any others.

We will always obey the law. We will follow the rule of law.

Education has for its object the formation of character.

The moral law commands us to make the highest possible good in a world the final object of all our conduct.

I seriously object to seeing on the screen what belongs in the bedroom.

I have nothing against diamonds, or rubies or emeralds or sapphires. I do object when their acquisition is complicit in the debasement of children or the destruction of a country.

I don't think anyone would object to Facebook selling ads or having ads directed at me, as long as people didn't think those ads were manipulated by personal data.

The strong arm of government should not force Americans to buy health-care products that they have reasoned objections to.

In essence, I set myself the objective of doing what I feel is right without having any ambition.