Quotes About Ethics

When I was in journalism school, you were taught to be completely objective. But we don't see that anymore.

I'm a little concerned about this notion everybody wants us to be objective.

I was a lousy journalist. I could never be objective. Sometimes I invented the whole story.

As for being an objective journalist? That's easy. I want what everyone else wants: the truth.

Journalists hold themselves apart, and above, the common person. They have rules designed to ensure their objectivity and impartiality.

When you are being anti-lie or pro-truth, you come across as being anti-Trump or pro-Democrat, and it's a very tough thing for those of us who are just working journalists and still believe in the notion of objectivity.

As a journalist, you want to try to maintain that objectivity and detachment.

It is easier to treat people as objects to be manipulated if you have never learned any other way to see them.

Would a good friend, a smart friend, encourage you to do something as dishonorable as not pay a bill you're morally and legally obligated to pay? I don't think so.

People can just put their cash away and continue to make money and never give back because they just do not care, but I immediately felt obligated to use my influence for good things.

We have a moral obligation to get healthcare to people who need it.

Hollywood has an obligation to watch what they put out there. Kids do imitate what they see - good or bad.

For years, I've felt an obligation to harvest an animal, since all my life I've so mindlessly consumed them. But that was from the safety of my desk.

When you have a voice, you also have a moral obligation to use that voice for good.

It was just the DNA of my family. Giving back didn't feel like an entitlement; it was an obligation.

A coldly rationalist individualist can deny that he has any obligation to make sacrifices for the future.

If an individual is born with the obligation to obey, who is born with the right to command?

Daley may not feel a moral responsibility to eliminate discrimination but he has a legal obligation to do so.

I believe the artist has an obligation to society.

I think celebrities have an obligation to the public to not just sing or act.

I think we have a real obligation when we do have animals in captivity to understand their needs and to care for them as well as we can.

When I see something that I think isn't right, I think I have some kind of, for right or wrong, an obligation to fix it.

I'd much rather have the freedom, and the obligation to use it responsibly, than be put in a box.

We're trying to make sure that financial advisers act like lawyers and doctors. When you go to a lawyer or doctor, they have an obligation to put your best interests first. Financial advisers don't.