Quotes About Ethics

As a prime minister, my job is not to try and influence or opine on what a leader of a different country should be doing.

Our Prime Minister, Gordon Brown has given the Government's support to the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill. It is difficult to imagine a single piece of legislation which, more comprehensively, attacks the sanctity and dignity of human life than this particular Bill.

A prime minister has to keep a certain balance when dealing with sensitive issues.

A prime minister cannot preside over Israel when an indictment has been filed against him.

I left the Labour Party because I consider it a racist endeavour. I could no longer, in good faith, knock on doors and say vote for me, and by extension get Jeremy Corbyn as Prime Minister.

Boxing is one of those leftovers from a more primitive past that should be finished off and killed. I don't love it anymore.

I got asked by a freelance journalist to jump in front of Princess Diana's funeral. How pathetic is that? That would have been the stupidest thing on the planet.

Secularism does not accept many things as absolutes. Its principal objectives are pleasure and self-interest. Often, those who embrace secularism have a different look about them.

My guiding principle is this: Guilt is never to be doubted.

I get angry at a principle, not a person.

Money, not morality, is the principle commerce of civilized nations.

When a fellow says, 'It ain't the money but the principle of the thing,' it's the money.

There is more selfishness and less principle among members of Congress than I had any conception of, before I became President of the U.S.

The principle of acting in good faith is at the heart of decent work.

Rise above principle and do what's right.

Retributive justice did not arise from any Christian principle; almost every pre-Christian society dealt with wrongdoers by causing them pain.

It's not a principle unless it costs you something.

I will restore a government based on principle and justice.

Almost anything that can be praised or advocated has been put to some disgusting use. There is no principle, however immaculate, that has not had its compromising manipulator.

We must stand on principle and practicality, and we should be very clear that a policy aimed at driving out 10 or 11 million people is not a good one.

Power focuses on self-preservation; principle focuses on making ideas successful.

It's a principle of my philosophy that you have to respect the individual human being.

For, quite literally, the whole world today is looking for us to take the lead in carrying out those obligations imposed on the American people as a whole by the beautiful, compassionate and courageous principle of noblesse oblige.

The European model is in danger if we obliterate the principle of personal responsibility.