Quotes About Ethics

I don't believe in management by fear. I also won't sacrifice the future of a company for a quarter.

Our players are educated. They know. If you knowingly break the rules, we're going to move on. We'll find someone else to play quarterback.

When I say I need a queen, I need a woman of principle and poise.

Science attempts to analyze how things and people and animals behave; it has no concern whether this behavior is good or bad, is purposeful or not. But religion is precisely the quest for such answers: whether an act is right or wrong, good or bad, and why.

Gollum was so interesting to me because he's morally ambivalent, and I love the notion of a quest that is to lose something. Not to gain, but to get rid of something.

The quest for riches darkens the sense of right and wrong.

Who needs checks and balances when the left, seemingly, knows and can decide right from wrong? When the left can decide what can be said and what cannot be said? When the left can decide how much money you're allowed to make or whether or not you deserve health care? It is a quest for power. And, it is dangerous.

What is frustrating is to have others question my motivation, my ethics, and my history.

On some positions, Cowardice asks the question, 'Is it safe?' Expediency asks the question, 'Is it politic?' And Vanity comes along and asks the question, 'Is it popular?' But Conscience asks the question, 'Is it right?'

The fascination about being a judge is the same about the duty of being a judge, and that is to ask yourself, Why am I about to rule the way I am about to rule? You must always ask yourself that question.

Every education law should be based around the question, 'Is this good for children?' And it's not.

If a rider is concerned about questionable practices, it's his duty to speak up for the good of others.

When you have over 500 million dollars in questionable contributions, shouldn't that start to alert people?

Characters with questionable morals are sexy.

There are some heterosexuals that have heterosexual behavior that is appalling sexually, that is deviant and bad and not really moral and Christ-like and biblical. But those people are never questioned as to whether or not they're allowed to be a parent.

There was a time that I questioned the government's role in abortion.

As a player, if your attitude is questioned, it's horrible.

It is extremely hard to have your integrity questioned when you value it so much.

Right after the assassination of Osama bin Laden, amid all the cheers and applause, there were a few critical comments questioning the legality of the act.

I had two elder brothers and they would thrash me if I do something wrong, then dad would thrash me. I think corporal punishment as disciplining the child is what I am questioning... I feel there are less flawed methods.

Science merely amplifies the capabilities of human beings. Science gives us the ability to do ill and to do good more than we had, and to question science in this respect is like questioning whether people ought to have two hands or just one, because with two hands they could do more evil than they can with just one.

Now everybody is questioning everything, so it's up to journalists who really care about the truth to fight for their corner of the truth and journalistic freedom.

When somebody questions or insults my integrity and my credibility that's not for sale.

And this is one of the major questions of our lives: how we keep boundaries, what permission we have to cross boundaries, and how we do so.