Quotes About Ethics

Never, ever, compromise on science.

Climate change is analogous to Lincoln and slavery or Churchill and Nazism: it's not the kind of thing where you can compromise.

I've never had to compromise myself for a job, ever.

I don't compromise at all on how people lead and manage other people. I don't want to work in an environment where people are belittled and berated.

Politics is compromise, by its very nature. But we never compromise on our values and beliefs.

I don't think one can write from a compromised moral position.

The media in America has become so cowed and compromised.

I don't know how you make a living without a few personal compromises.

I think it's amazing when technology is used in a smart way, but the responsibility that comes with it... I think there's a lot of technology that we're using that we haven't thought through. It's a bit scary to put all your trust in technology and to think that that's what going to save us. We're going to have to make some compromises.

Almost everybody accepts that some people can be killed. 'The concept of 'brain death' - the belief that people on respirators can legitimately be killed - shows that.

I don't believe life begins at conception.

You know, my concern is that even if Cambridge Analytica has dissolved as a company, its capabilities haven't.

They asked me what I thought about euthanasia. I said I'm more concerned about the adults.

If there are places where I didn't feel comfortable with the particular politics, then I just couldn't do a concert there.

Religion is not a conclusion of the reason.

Responsibility is always about concrete action.

This was the way I was brought up to think of politics, that politics was to do with ethics, it was to do with responsibility, it was to do with service, so I think I was conditioned to think like that, and I'm too old to change now.

If you keep on buying things made by child slaves in such conditions, you are equally responsible for the perpetration of slavery.

We can no more condone the wastefulness of self-serving company executives than we can the sacrifice of the lives of our citizens in a senseless war.

I do not condone the use of violence.

I don't condone violence, period.

Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.

My concern today is not with the length of a person's hair but with his conduct.

But I can't take responsibility for criminal conduct of somebody inside the company.