Quotes About Ethics

I think that we need to look hard at our beliefs and be responsible about how we speak out.

I have no beliefs of a religious kind.

In documentary, mostly, people are going to say untoward things; people are going to have gnarly beliefs. People aren't perfect.

The perspective of people who truly believe that abortion is wrong. I understand that, I'm empathetic to that, I get it. But the place where I think we need to come to some kind of an understanding is that... you have your ability to have your own beliefs but the government doesn't play a role in that.

Athletics set the right sentiment for a clean and believable sport.

Sure, we want to know what a president believes in... but that doesn't always mean he should tell us.

I'm one of those people who believes you are what you do.

I worry Mr. Trump believes he's special just because he's Mr. Trump and that the rules don't apply to him and the people around him.

No one believes that they're a bad person at the end of the day.

I'm a person who believes in rules.

The plain truth is that I knew better but went to Everest anyway. And in doing so I was a party to the death of good people, which is something that is apt to remain on my conscience for a very long time.

In reality, the [American legal] system promotes chicanery, outright deceit, and other egregious conduct by trial lawyers.

He offered a crystal-clear notion of right and wrong, an unambiguous definition of good and evil. And although his perspective was absolutist and unyielding, it presented a kinder, gentler alternative to Calvinism, which had been the ecclesiastical status quo in the early years of the American republic.

In the adversarial system, it's more important to follow legal procedure than to speak the truth.

When our heroes turn out to be sleazebags, self-deception is easier than facing the facts.

And he never quit in the middle of something. If he started a job, he'd finish it. It was almost like a moral thing for him. He was what you'd call extremely ethical. He set pretty high standards for himself.

Much of the food he put on the table came from hunting—despite the fact that he was uncomfortable killing animals. "My dad cried every time he shot a deer," Billie says, 'but we had to eat, so he did it.

The LDS Church has annual revenues estimated at more than $6 billion, and

We were too tired to help. Above 8,000 meters is not a place where people can afford morality.

The conversation that ensued was anguished and halting. We avoided making eye contact. After five minutes, however, all four of us concurred: Hutchison's decision to leave Beck and Yasuko where they lay was the proper course of action.

According to Montana law, Keteyian countered, a person who is physically incapacitated is incapable of providing consent. Given her extremely high blood alcohol level, he wondered, wasn't Belnap clearly incapacitated?

Fundamentalists call defrauding the government "bleeding the beast" and regard it as a virtuous act.

As an obedient Saint, he had already pledged not to drink, smoke, take illegal drugs, ingest caffeine, masturbate, or engage in premarital sex.

When this casuistry came to light