Quotes About Ethics

Sadly, embryonic stem cell research is completely legal in this country and has been going on at universities and research facilities for years.

It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.

We educated, privileged lawyers have a professional and moral duty to represent the underrepresented in our society, to ensure that justice exists for all, both legal and economic justice.

… you were so worried about legal and illegal that you never stopped to think about whether it was right or wrong.

Imagine a legal system in which lawyers were equated with the clients they defended and were condemned for representing controversial or despised clients.

If you must break the law, do it to seize power: in all other cases observe it.

Political corruption works by having an equally corrupt legal system to protect it.

If pimps and thieves were invariably sentenced, all decent people would get to thinking they themselves were constantly innocent.

To respect law, a man carries mercy with his endeavours. To respect ethics, he moves on wasteful relationships.

There are those who are legitimately corrupt, who cannot admit that legitimacy allows them to corrupt legitimacy, and to legitimately corrupt others.

Just because something was legal didn't automatically make it right.

As a lawyer and a former prosecutor, I know the limits of the power and authority of the president. I know what is legal and what is not.

Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is a little like expecting the bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian.

In this life all that I have is my word and my balls and I do not break them for nobody.

To destroy the fetus 'is something worse than murder.' The one who does this 'does not take away life that has already been born, but prevents it from being born.'

I never thought I was a bad person. I just thought I was the one good person living in a world of bad people.

The most important thing to do in your life is to not interfere with somebody else's life.

Perhaps the worst sin in life is knowing right and not doing it.

When I think of those who have influenced my life the most, I think not of the great but of the good.

Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.

You can be everything in life but the important thing is to be a good person.

Although I can't stop all cruelty to living creatures on the planet, I can be kinder to every living creature in my life.

Avoid doing what you would blame others for doing.

Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.