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Quotes About Ethics

Semi-automatic weapons have no socially redeeming purpose.
~ Marian Wright Edelman
Let's face it - selling weapons systems to the Army isn't women's work.
~ Judith Love Cohen
Nuclear weapons are intrinsically neither moral nor immoral, though they are more prone to immoral use than most weapons.
~ Herman Kahn
Our moral authority is as important, if not more important, than our troop strength or our high-tech weapons. We are rapidly losing that moral authority, not only in the Arab world but all over the world.
~ Robert Reich
I do not believe it makes sense to say that nuclear weapons are inherently evil. In certain circumstances, they can play a positive role - as they have in the past. But clearly they have a power to do great harm.
~ Des Browne
We must abandon the unworkable notion that it is morally reprehensible for some countries to pursue weapons of mass destruction, yet morally acceptable for others to rely on them for security - and indeed to continue to refine their capacities and postulate plans for their use.
~ Mohamed ElBaradei
Five million Jews are regarding me as a traitor, but six billion people around the world think me as a hero and a good man who bring the message to all the human beings that we should survive and prevent the use of nuclear weapons and to prevent the nuclear preparations and to prevent nuclear war in the future.
~ Mordechai Vanunu
There is no possible justification or excuse for marketing dangerous weapons to children as if they were toys.
~ Elizabeth Esty
People in my organization were very outspoken about what we should be doing with the Department of Defense. One of them is work on autonomous weapons. That, to me, is something I don't want to work on or have anything to do with.
~ Jeff Dean
Prisons are big businesses, which I hadn't realized. A lot of these name brand labels that we wear - they're using prison labor and exploiting prisoners, who live in harsh conditions. People need to know about this kind of sweatshop labor, so they can decide what to spend their money on.
~ Da Brat
I wear Doc Martens leather boots, so I'm not a vegan. I am a vague-one.
~ Jack Monroe
Slavery is no more sinful, by the Christian code, than it is sinful to wear a whole coat, while another is in tatters, to eat a better meal than a neighbor, or otherwise to enjoy ease and plenty, while our fellow creatures are suffering and in want.
~ James Fenimore Cooper
I'm not Ted Nugent. My house is run, essentially, by an adopted, fully clawed cat with a mean nature. I would never hunt. I would never wear fur. I would never go to a bullfight. I'm not really a meat and potatoes guy.
~ Anthony Bourdain
What Wall Street and credit card companies are doing is really not much different from what gangsters and loan sharks do who make predatory loans. While the bankers wear three-piece suits and don't break the knee caps of those who can't pay back, they still are destroying people's lives.
~ Bernie Sanders
In the Garden of Eden, figuring out what to wear was easy and the fig leaves were environmentally friendly. Today, it's much harder to find clothes that don't have some kind of negative impact on the planet.
~ Tatiana Schlossberg
There's some criminals that wear badges. Guess what? There's some criminals that work in the media. There's some criminals that are football coaches. There's some criminals that are politicians. There are criminals that work in churches.
~ Dabo Swinney
I was unaware of the dispute in Brooklyn. I would never knowingly wear any clothes or support any company who produced clothing with alleged wage and labor violations.
~ Shakira
I'm sitting in my home office wearing a bathrobe. The same way I'm not going to start wearing ties, I'm also not going to buy into the fake politeness, the lying, the office politics and backstabbing, the passive aggressiveness, and the buzzwords.
~ Linus Torvalds
We are killing a living thing just so that we can wear it? I think fake leather is also beautiful and lasts longer. All I am saying is that if you like wearing leather stuff, put in some extra effort and explore the market. Take on fake leather and stop being part of this cruelty.
~ Harshvardhan Rane
I much prefer if someone buys something from us that they plan on wearing it and not selling.
~ James Jebbia
I always fought against vulgarity, double meaning dialogues and wearing la'dies' clothes.
~ Asrani
We can read your heart rate from a webcam without you wearing anything - we can just use the reflection of your face, which shows blood flow.
~ Rana el Kaliouby
Friends give me a hard time about the pants I'm wearing, which are made in China. Well, how do you find the right clothes? Or the right movie studio? The right people giving you checks? Good luck doing the right thing all the time.
~ Adam McKay
Personally, I think wearing a baby chinchilla says, 'I'm ignorant.'
~ Eva Mendes