Quotes About Ethics

Can postmodernism hold the perpetrators of genocide accountable?

Being fired for bad performance or for having an alter ego that posts incredibly racist stuff is not cancel culture.

We need to ban all air-freighted food. Carrots from Holland. Potatoes from Egypt. It's got to stop.

I think Socrates was fascinated by Alcibiades. It's almost the opposite of hypocrisy. I think it's like when you can see the potential in someone.

The way I look at humanity, I don't think there's good guys or bad guys. We're all potentially bad and potentially good.

The government should not have the right to force you to participate in some type of behavior that is going to conflict with your conscience rights, and if it does or potentially does, you should have the ability to have access to courts, and currently, that's not necessarily the case.

Restorers of paintings and pottery follow a code of conduct in their work to distinguish the original material from what they are adding later.

Our cattle, poultry and fish should not be exposed to antibiotics or hormones that will be harmful to their human consumers.

An ounce of hypocracy is worth a pound of ambition.

If you are a rich person straining every sinew to keep every last pound in your pocket, there comes a point when you realize you are not just escaping the clutches of the Chancellor of the Exchequer. You are passing a greater burden on to people poorer than yourself, and depriving even poorer people of your support.

I'm in spend-down. I've got a billion in cash. You can't leave people a billion pounds, can you?

I was not a political animal; I could not toady up to the committee men, pour drinks down their necks at the bar, and make them feel important. I was too focused on the cricket.

We should not pour muck on ourselves.

I think it is fundamental to understand that the ethics of politics indicate that you should concentrate your efforts on those marginalized people who live in poverty with few opportunities to develop individually.

Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

The point of journalism is to hold people in positions of power accountable.

Evil, when we are in its power, is not felt as evil, but as a necessity, even a duty.

One of the epidemics in our industry is the abuse of power.

The power to do good is also the power to do harm.

Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.

The most powerful moral influence is example.

When you meet powerful men or just read about them in the newspapers, you see that they don't have a sense of boundaries.

Slow business is an interesting area because it's taking into consideration the reality that we have to make a living.

He considers me just a uterus with legs.