Quotes About Ethics

I'm a weirdo, but I have a very strong moral code.

I am not a weirdo, a wacko, or an eccentric for wanting to do good, honest work on a day-to-day basis.

I hate the idea of people nicking my stuff, but in all honesty, I'm pretty well off. If a genuinely desperate man on his last gasp nicks my coat from the pub on a freezing night, well, he's welcome to it. It'll change his life. Mine's only inconvenienced by having to buy another one.

Criticism of a policy is welcome. But in the garb of criticizing a policy, if you allege that the policy was made for corrupt purposes, I reject it.

I violated, apparently, an unspoken rule that we are supposed to take care of our own. Frankly, if that invites discomfort, I welcome it. I don't think there's enough discomfort in journalism, especially in Washington.

My dad, he would go through these periods of self-doubt. We'd do something that was controversial or that wasn't welcomed by everybody, and he'd go, 'Well, Shirley, our parents cursed us with ethics, and we passed it on to our children.'

Both Marx and Christ agree that in this life, a right action is consideration for the welfare of others.

We cannot shirk responsibility from concerns for the welfare of the next generation.

I don't think value to the customer is achieved at the expense of employees' welfare.

This desire for equity must not lead to an excess of welfare, where nobody is responsible for anything.

I'm very much into animal welfare.

In my case, I give a lot to animal welfare because I think that's pretty neglected in America.

To establish justice and to promote the general welfare, America does not need the abortion license.

Welfare distorts behavior, makes one less personally responsible and reduces the role of private charity. This principle applies to corporate welfare.

The simplest and clearest motivation for taking animal welfare seriously is the recognition that pain is in and of itself a bad thing, and that to inflict significant amounts of it unnecessarily is wrong.

What does animal welfare have to do with food safety? The animals are the food! They are living in their own excrement, developing horrific sores, stressed out, and, therefore, more vulnerable to illness and disease.

I don't mind payin' for the police and for streets and sanitation, or road work, bridges, trains, food subsidies and welfare. But I don't wanna pay for bombs to fight proxy wars in the middle of nowhere against enemies in the night.

Corporate welfare isn't necessarily a bad thing.

Of course, bankers were always interested in making money. But when bankers had clients, they bore some responsibility for the clients' welfare.

I definitely could not write a character that was cruel or unconcerned with animal welfare. For me, not just as a writer but for the person I am, I love animals.

It takes us many years to learn that the passion for justice and the welfare of all, once it has been aroused, is the deepest one in moral life.

I don't know how we will ever have the moral authority to deal with social welfare if we can't deal with corporate welfare.

I'm against corporate welfare.

Exclusively should mean exclusively, and money used for campaign purposes should kept separate from money used for the promotion of social welfare.