Quotes About Ethics

he was going to kick someone down a flight of stairs, of course it would be a paedophile. It reminded me of his behaviour when we had visited Raymond Clunes.

but I want you to know that it was him who said what we were going to do once we got out. Once a lawyer, always a lawyer. I always heard he had a reputation for telling the truth but that wasn't what he did this time, not when it would have stayed with him for the rest of his life. And think what it would have done for his career!!! Not the Blunt Razor. The Blubbing Loser.

How it is the small lies and evasions which nobody sees or detects but which can come together and smother you like the fumes in a house fire.

if you surrounded murder with enough forms and procedures, if you could convince yourself that it was an absolute necessity, then ultimately it would not be murder at all.

That's what's wrong with this country. You've got food banks in the north and down here in Hampstead there are people who don't think twice about spending a fortune on a fucking bottle of wine. It doesn't make sense.

You can hold it right there,' I said. 'I've already told you. You can't talk about people's sexuality like that. I'm not having it and I'm not putting it in the book.' 'You can put what

He was just going to have to cheat.

I controlled him and made sure that I pressed all the right buttons for a young audience. He didn't smoke. He didn't swear. He didn't have a gun. And he certainly wasn't homophobic.

Man was a complicated animal capable of extraordinary good and great evil – but he was definitely on his own.

and anyway, in America, bribing a politician is part of the etiquette.

A German philosopher once wrote that he who fights monsters must take care that he doesn't become one himself.

He who fights monsters must take care that he doesn't become one himself.

Just because something is tradition doesn't make it right.

Transcend political correctness and strive for human righteousness.

Let them hate me, provided they respect my conduct.

It is better to have too much courtesy than too little, provided you are not equally courteous to all, for that would be injustice.

I have never intentionally provided false and misleading information to the NCAA.

We do not just blindly concede control to authorities; instead we follow the cues provided by our moral communities on how best to behave.

I'm a businessman, and I think there's nothing wrong with being a businessman provided you have the right headspace and do good things with the money you make.

No, we are not the master of the state, said King. We are not the servant of the state. We are the conscience of the state. The churches or the religious community should be, I think, the conscience of the state. We're not just service providers.

While many big-data providers do their best to de-identify individuals from human-subject data sets, the risk of re-identification is very real.

As employees, we are all given specific duties and carrying out these duties provides us with a great sense of responsibility.

'Would I mind if someone wrote a sequel to one of my books?' I asked myself, and I decided that I wouldn't, providing that the writer was respectful, had read my book first, and wasn't drunk when doing it.

I would like to think that I have followed in the proper tradition of attorneys-general, providing good quality advice to my colleagues in government and have taken on their needs and concerns.