Quotes About Ethics

I think the four major leagues ought to set up a joint commission - say, of retired judges - to rule on athletes who are accused of doing bad things away from the game. Then each league would retain its independence in determining what penalties their players should get for infractions committed within the sport.

If we want corporations to act differently, we have to force them to do so through laws that are fully enforced and through penalties higher than the economic benefits of thwarting the laws.

Believing in the sanctity of life also shouldn't expose anyone to discrimination or penalties for declining to support abortion.

I believe that the death penalty is an effective penalty.

I believe in the death penalty.

We as Americans believe it's OK to kill people. We believe it's OK to invade a country that had nothing to do with 9/11. We think it's OK to invade a country where we think Osama Bin Laden is and he's in the other country. So we just go in and we just kill. And we have the death penalty; we sanction it.

Those who support the death penalty are accepting a practice that is both ineffective and fundamentally flawed.

We have abolished the death penalty for humans, so why should it continue for animals?

I am pro-death penalty, but not an enthusiastic death-penalty person. I think there's a place for it, that it should serve as a deterrent.

I'm actually really opposed to the death penalty.

One thing I detest most about the financial press is the lack of accountability. All sorts of nonsense is said without penalty.

I'm pro-death penalty, but what I have not seen is anybody that would mock someone on death row.

I am against the death penalty.

I was badly mauled by people in New York State for being against the death penalty for 12 years.

My personal view is that I am opposed to the death penalty.

Michael Cohen is a criminal, and he deserves the max penalty.

When I got lucky enough to be successful as an actor, and I got involved in the anti-war stuff and gay rights movement, there was always this thing eating at me about the death penalty, because that was, to me, the bottom line. That was the anti-life - by definition - position, and I didn't understand why we did it.

I don't believe in death penalty even though my background is soldiering.

There is no place for the death penalty in a just, humane society.

I don't want boys to use their pencils for improper writing.

The death penalty confronts us with a penetrating moral question: Can even the monstrous crimes of those who are condemned to death and are truly guilty of such crimes erase their sacred dignity as human beings and their intrinsic right to life?

I grew up thinking that it was immoral to idealize the past because, in the past, there was slavery and no penicillin.

I've never asked or demanded a penny from United.

I won't play for a penny less than fifteen hundred dollars.