Quotes About Ethics

Torture, including practices like waterboarding, violates the legal and moral standards of all civilized nations.

I haven't, in the 23 years that I have been in the uniformed services of the United States of America, ever violated an order - not one.

Selling drug secrets violates a trust that is fundamental to the integrity of both scientific research and our financial markets.

When you go with individuals who have violated the Constitution in any fashion, you have sold your soul to them.

No matter how senior an official is, if he violates party discipline and the law of the country, he will be seriously dealt with and punished.

If you are in this country illegally, stealing a job from an American citizen, I'm going to do all I can to put an American citizen in that job and not somebody that has crossed our border, come into the country and violated our laws.

You cannot strengthen the law by violating the law.

Almost every day, you see an article in the papers about someone violating a campaign finance law.

You can compromise without violating your principles, but it is nearly impossible to compromise when you turn principles into ideology.

I think, in this country, anybody can do whatever they want to do as long as it's not hurting anybody else or violating the laws of society.

Any sex outside of the marriage bond between a man and a woman is violating God's law.

All initiation of force is a violation of someone else's rights, whether initiated by an individual or the state, for the benefit of an individual or group of individuals, even if it's supposed to be for the benefit of another individual or group of individuals.

I can say that I have not done any culpable violation of the constitution.

The work of woman is not to lessen the severity or the certainty of the penalty for the violation of the moral law, but to prevent this violation by the removal of the causes which lead to it.

I believe that any violation of privacy is nothing good.

Because I grew up with this naive expectation of people doing right, I get shocked by every little violation.

If it be not a sin, an open, flagrant violation of all the rules of justice and humanity, to hold these slaves in bondage, it is indeed folly to put ourselves to any trouble and expense in order to free them.

Even if torture works, what is the point of 'defending' America using a tactic that is a fundamental violation of what America ought to mean?

President Trump is taking foreign money through his businesses, which is in violation of the Emoluments Clause of the Constitution.

There is a point at which the law becomes immoral and unethical. That point is reached when it becomes a cloak for the cowardice that dares not stand up against blatant violations of justice.

I never thought the NCAA violations for the phone call would ever rise to the level it did.

Whether I'm reading a national publication or one of my local Chicago newspapers, I don't need to turn too many pages before I stumble upon another scandal. Not only do ethics violations deteriorate the public trust, but they also disrupt and undermine legitimate debate and policy.

If you are a lawyer, and you want to take on easier cases, you can prosecute traffic violations or something. You'd have a very high rate of success, and you probably could sleep more easily at night. But that's not what drives me.

There's strong data that, within companies, the No. 1 reason for ethical violations is the pressure to meet expectations, sometimes unrealistic expectations.