Quotes About Ethics

Membership in the bar is a privilege burdened with conditions.

Privilege is the greatest enemy of right.

People in positions of power and privilege have a duty to perform at a higher level. If not them, then who?

Well, if I used the privilege of self-incrimination at that time, I must have felt that perhaps there might be something that might incriminate me in answering.

I'm aware of the decisions I make and the responsibility I have as a role model. I wouldn't disregard that. It's a privilege.

We believe that health care is a right, not a privilege.

I don't really have a political agenda, I just like things to be fair - I get angered by pomposity and privilege.

Even though people pretend that medical records are privileged information, anyone can already get their hands on them.

It would be nice to say the rich people, the fancy people, all behaved like bastards and the poor slobs all came through like heroes. But as a matter of fact, sometimes the poor slobs behave like slobs and the great, noble, privileged characters come off very well, indeed.

I think that anything that has privileges have responsibility and all people that is clear about their responsibility has compromise.

I put the good playing and game first, and money, prizes are secondary.

The process for awarding Nobel prizes is so complex that it cannot be corrupted.

It is embarrassing that a player would give up his career and the chance to compete for the biggest prizes in the game just for money.

I've won fair-play prizes, but that's just my nature, my character. This is who I am, and I do not feel the need to hide the real me.

I'm not being outspoken or pro or con abortion.

In fact, there's a lot to legitimately hate about pro sports and the way they are conducted.

Pro basketball is a very mercenary endeavor.

Once I turned pro, I was like,' OK, this is not fun and games now. This is me. I'm going to come, and I work on karma. I'm not going to go after somebody if I don't have a reason behind it, so as soon as there is some sort of a reason for me to do something that I need to do, then I'll do it.'

My clients were always poor folks, working folks, people who were in trouble and couldn't afford to pay a whole lot. I found it very difficult to say no to somebody who needed help, so most of my work turned out to be pro bono. It didn't start out that way, but it turned out that way because I never got paid.

If you want to be pro, you have to hold yourself accountable. It's about what you do when nobody's looking.

I take a lot of pro bono cases, and I always have to balance my pro bono cases with my paying clients because this is a law firm - this is a business.

When I came to faith, I was on pro-choice boards, and I dropped off of those because you couldn't read the Bible and be pro-choice.

I am a pro-choice Republican. But there are some areas - late-term abortions and parental notification - I'd be open minded to.

If you're so pro-life, do me a favour: don't lock arms and block medical clinics. If you're so pro-life, lock arms and block cemeteries.