Quotes About Ethics

I derive no pleasure from prosecuting a man, even though I know he's guilty do you think I could sleep at night or look at myself in the mirror in the morning if I hounded an innocent man?

It's rather naive, apart from being ethically objectionable, to assume that our investigators travel around the country with bags of money trying to bribe witnesses to lie on the witness stand. We just don't operate that way.

Integrity never goes out of style.

Some people criticized Mother Teresa for taking money from people who were later convicted of stealing. She had no way of knowing, her defenders said.

The Wolf of Wall Street

At any organizational level people are leaders not because of what they do, but because of who they are.

This is a matter of public health. The public was sick and tired of DeLay and his corruption.

Nothing is true and all is allowed

I believe in the principle declared at Nuremberg in 1945: Individuals have international duties which transcend the national obligations of obedience.

immoral cannot be made moral through the use of secret law. "I believe in the principle declared at Nuremberg in 1945: Individuals have international duties which transcend the national obligations of obedience.

revealed that the pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline had released more than eleven gallons of concentrated live polio virus into rivers near Rixen, Belgium. The release, termed accidental, if in fact purposeful, would demonstrate a reliable way to ensure that the polio

ONE ALL-TOO-COMMON RESPONSE TO BOTH UNWARRANTED SURVEILLANCE and the growing police state goes as follows: "If you are not doing anything wrong, you have nothing to worry about.

in September 2014, the European Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (ECDC) revealed that the pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline had released more than eleven gallons of concentrated live polio virus into rivers near Rixen, Belgium. The release, termed accidental, if in fact purposeful, would demonstrate a reliable way to ensure that the polio vaccine continues to be in high demand.

But large fines don't appear to affect the questionable practices of pharmaceutical companies; such practices will not change until drug executives are singled out for punishment.

Violence isn't always evil. What's evil is the infatuation with violence.

Giving "Magic" the basketball is like giving Hitler an army, Jesse James a gang, or Genghis Khan a horse.

Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming.

These days the temptation to use steroids in sports has become too great for many young athletes.

Several professional athletes have wrongly taught many young Americans by example that the only way to succeed in sports is to take steroids.

Integrity is doing the right thing, even if nobody is watching.

Integrity is doing the right thing, even if no one is watching.

We will become known for the good traits we consistently exhibit or the bad habits we allow to creep into our life.

The failure of political leaders to help uplift the poor will be judged a moral failure.

A budget is a moral document.