Quotes About Ethics

It is as pleasant as it is unusual to see thoroughly good people getting their deserts.

We either believe in the dignity of the individual, the rule of law, and the prohibition of cruel and unusual punishment, or we don't. There is no middle ground.

We have laws against torture. The Constitution says nothing whatever about torture. It speaks of punishment; 'cruel and unusual' punishments are forbidden.

I could do terrible things to people who dump unwanted animals by the roadside.

We have an unwavering commitment to our social responsibility program; it's good for business, and we know it's the right thing to do.

Every tax or rate, forcibly taken from an unwilling person, is immoral and oppressive.

I was unwilling and we remain unwilling to be part of the problem. I was unwilling to be part of the problem just to get to the office.

It is inexplicable as to why the Chief Justice or other judges of the Supreme Court are unwilling to disclose their assets, particularly when they had themselves directed even candidates contesting elections to publicly declare their assets.

In every project I do, I'm unwilling to compromise my values and morals and ethics. That's very important to me.

The cultural issues, I think, at Wells Fargo went very, very deep. They have to unwind these cultural issues.

War at this time and in this place is unwelcome, unwise, and simply wrong.

I don't know anyone who thinks the SNC Lavalin mess was well handled, and it was all driven by Justin Trudeau. A smart prime minister would have realized early that the situation was unwinnable, that trying to have a prosecutor overruled was unwise in the extreme, and let it go.

I would rather go to any extreme than suffer anything that is unworthy of my reputation, or of that of my crown.

For those of us in the political business, generally, it's been pretty much an unwritten but understood rule that family and children are out of bounds, that you don't attack someone's family.

The courage in journalism is sticking up for the unpopular, not the popular.

It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk.

For society to progress, we should not only move forward but also clean up after ourselves.

It's important for everyone to stand up for what they believe in.

Bernie Madoff... was regulated up and down and every which way, and it didn't do any good - he ran away with everyone's money.

I owe my drive and determination to my upbringing, which instilled in me a set of values that make me who I am.

The idea that someone is going to write me, and I'm not going to answer - I was just raised not to do that. We are the result of our upbringing, and my upbringing was very much to meet obligations... You just didn't let things go.

It was a very big principle in my upbringing that you should respect everybody's work. The street sweeper. Everybody. You should never look down on anybody for their work.

I learned from my Adventist upbringing that the biggest sins were sexual.

The only thing I have retained from my upbringing - I did not retain the religious element - is the idea that you do not do things for money.