Quotes About Ethics

The question I should have asked is not what is the rule, but what is the principle.

I'm a writer. I don't support any war. That's my principle.

For me, the main principle for broadcasters has to be that if people stand to benefit from an interview, they should be prepared to face some downside as well.

Let me tell you, if you're ever making a decision and the principle reason you'll do it is because of money, then it is absolutely the incorrect decision.

We need to accept the principle that sometimes poor people will die just because they are poor.

We don't need bipartisanship, we need application of principle.

I don't like to hurt people's feelings, and I don't like to knock other writers as a matter of principle.

Science can tell us what can be done in principle, but it is then a matter for public debate as to what should be done. And ultimately, it is a role for politicians to decide the answers.

I want a group of Green MPs who will demonstrate to Canadians that it's possible to be respectful, ethical, hard working and actually stick to principle.

At the end of the day, I'm big on principle and loyalty.

It seems like basic principle to me. According to Senate ethics rules, Members of the U.S. Senate, and their families, cannot benefit personally and financially from legislative decisions they make. Senator Feinstein, apparently, either doesn't agree with this principle, or she has chosen to ignore it.

What I am is a principled conservative individual who believes in fiscal responsibility.

Jeremy Corbyn is a principled Labour man.

It is usually expensive and lonely to be principled.

Dad was a very, very principled man, and he hated any kind of story where the baddies get away with it.

Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are.

The deterioration of a government begins almost always by the decay of its principles.

Nature has no principles. She makes no distinction between good and evil.

Ethics and equity and the principles of justice do not change with the calendar.

Openness, respect, integrity - these are principles that need to underpin pretty much every other decision that you make.

A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles.

We should be led by principles and morals and not by men.

There's more than one way to get to the goal that you want to get to, but once you compromise your own principles, then you're lost. You're really lost.

I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.