Quotes About Ethics

You can have many different selection systems, but the bottom line has to be a system that, once the judge takes office that judge will feel that he or she is to decide the case without reference to the popular thing or the popular will of the moment.

I think we need to start thinking about grounding our moral systems in our biology.

I do think we have a responsibility to be aware of the stories we're telling and how those stories will be interpreted and what sorts of value systems we're celebrating.

Our anti-corruption systems have inherently and intently been kept flawed.

Someone has to pick up the tab when people get out of repaying their own debts.

I think that some of the greatest muckrakers and some of the greatest investigative journalists of all time had strong feelings about civil rights. There is a role for the journalist-advocate. And as long as you play your cards on the table, I think that's a role that we should allow.

By the time you have your protagonist attempting to assassinate the Pope, you've sort of signaled that everything is on the table.

I try not to and I don't think I ever have just jumped at any opportunity because a company wanted me. Just because there was money on the table doesn't mean that I took it.

You must strive to multiply bread so that it suffices for the tables of mankind, and not rather favor an artificial control of birth, which would be irrational, in order to diminish the number of guests at the banquet of life.

Purchasing a story in order to bury it is a practice that many in the tabloid industry call 'catch and kill.'

There's a lot of people who feel there's a tabloid journalist who had it coming.

People who read the tabloids deserve to be lied to.

I consider myself allergic to gossip and tabloids, and go out of my way to avoid them.

The tabloids operate in an amoral parallel universe where the bottom line is selling newspapers.

I don't earn my money from trying to hurt people or get in the tabloids.

I never talk to tabloids.

The incentive for digging up gossip has become so great that people will break the law for the opportunity to take that picture. Then it crosses the line into invasion of privacy. The thing that's really bad about it, though, is that the tabloids don't tell the truth.

Isn't privacy about keeping taboos in their place?

The Polynesians used to have a system where they proclaimed a fishing area as 'taboo.' If any fisherman was caught fishing in a taboo area, they would be killed. The Polynesians understand that the fish had to be given a chance to recover.

There are necessary taboos and essential decencies in every morally healthy society.

I am not obliged to tackle racism wherever and whenever it occurs, nor am I qualified to do so.

Tackling deprivation around the world is a moral imperative and firmly in Britain's national interest.

The first principle of tackling corruption is that you do not engage in it and you have the will to confront it.

It's just, some players I don't respect. Just their playing style of basketball. I don't respect it. I feel like it's basically cheating and I don't respect a cheater. If that's your tactic to winning, I don't respect you.