Quotes About Ethics

I could not become an American citizen. I would not like to become a citizen of a country that has capital punishment.

He who is in evil, is also in the punishment of evil.

If a company has acted badly, people want to punish it - not in order to deter future misconduct, but simply because they're outraged. And the more outraged they are, the more punishment they want to inflict.

The message has to be sent that if you commit a crime there has to be punishment.

The punishment should fit the crime and if a doctor or drug company does harm knowingly or negligently to a patient they should be compensated to make them whole.

Lying to a committee is a very grave abuse, and there ought to be a clear punishment.

Punishment is lame, but it comes.

I'm always theoretically opposed to capital punishment as a matter of policy; like, I don't believe a state should put its citizens to death.

The bottom line is: If any government has a rule that would legally allow it to punish people for things that don't deserve punishment, then that law should be scrapped or changed.

I wanted to say I don't agree with capital punishment.

The best crime stories are always about the crime and its consequences - you know, 'Crime And Punishment' is the classic. Where you have the crime, and its consequences are the story, but considering the crime and the consequences makes you think about the society in which the crime takes place, if you see what I mean.

Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education.

Growing up with a father who was a judge, I heard a lot about justice. But for justice to be applied, punishments need to fit their crimes.

It's like, if you sign a guy you know is a punk and a jerk, you can't complain like, 'Hey, the punk jerk is acting like a punk jerk!'

I still live very much by punk ethics, but in a more grown up way.

The jury had down right contempt for punk rock grass roots ethics.

What I do like about Donald Trump is that he's not bought by the lobbyists. He put up his own money, funded his own campaign. That means he's nobody's puppet.

We need an attorney general for the people, not a presidential protector and puppet of the administration.

People simply shouldn't buy puppies without a breeding certificate.

Well, puppy mills are - it's just a name given to really, really bad dog breeding facilities and sadly, we have a lot of them in this country.

These puppy mills are horrific. It's totally for-profit breeding. It's despicable.

Would any one believe that I am master of slaves by my own purchase? I am drawn along by the general inconvenience of living without them.

A laugh, if purchased at the expense of propriety, costs too much.

Consumers have not been told effectively enough that they have huge power and that purchasing and shopping involve a moral choice.