Quotes About Ethics

Let's be honest - tracking down, rounding up, and deporting millions of people isn't realistic. Anyone who suggests otherwise isn't being straight with you. It's also not who we are as Americans.

I am not a politician. I'm an American businessman and entrepreneur that have built two businesses, and I try to play it straight with people.

Lawyers enjoy a little mystery, you know. Why, if everybody came forward and told the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth straight out, we should all retire to the workhouse.

A lawyer should have her facts straight.

What I do will be straight up. Management knows that.

Lawyers have to make a living, and can only do so by inducing people to believe that a straight line is crooked.

To be fair, money and politics never work in a directly straight line.

It is straightforward for me to be ethical, responsible, and kind-hearted because I have the resources to support that.

In a very straightforward way, I am a terrible reporter. I'm not someone who can go into a story and not get involved.

When I was a prosecutor, we had one straightforward goal: convict the guilty and protect the innocent. To me, that simple mission still holds true.

We've become embarrassed about asking ourselves the straightforward, simple questions that are actually the most relevent: what is it to be human? How can we steer a course between self-indulgence and self-denial and be the very best version of ourselves that we can?

It is always a strain when people are being killed. I don't think anybody has held this job who hasn't felt personally responsible for those being killed.

Both politicians and journalists face situations which strain their honesty and humanity. My opinion is that politicians on the average stand up somewhat better than journalists.

What is character? It is that quality of man which is going to make a man, in an hour of strain, do the just and, if possible, the generous thing.

All literature has this moral strain, but in Russian literature, it's particularly sharp.

Everyone says corruption is everywhere, but for me it seems strange to say that and then not try to put the people guilty of that corruption away.

It may seem a strange principle to enunciate as the very first requirement in a hospital that it should do the sick no harm.

It is strange how little harm bad codes do.

It really is a strange time we're living in, when saying 'Don't kill people' is considered a radical point of view.

A lie will easily get you out of a scrape, and yet, strangely and beautifully, rapture possesses you when you have taken the scrape and left out the lie.

Whatever you think of de Sade, he was a complex figure and we should not look for easy answers with him. He was, strangely perhaps, against the death penalty, and he was never put in prison for murders or anything like that.

Even President Bush has cited the need to outlaw the practice of corporations making loans to their officers. Strangely enough, when the President was a corporate officer, he took out several loans from the company.

We live in a science fictional world with things like cloning and face transplants, and things seem to be getting stranger and stranger.

Our very lives depend on the ethics of strangers, and most of us are always strangers to other people.