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Quotes About Ethics

I don't believe he had a responsibility to even answer that question - you have no responsibility to answer personal questions that people have no right to ask you.
~ Chris Matthews
When we see the corrupting influence of political decision making in our public health professionals, we should ask questions.
~ Cal Cunningham
As self-driving cars become more common, there will be a flood of new legal questions.
~ Adam Cohen
One of the most fundamental questions people have about defense attorneys is, 'How can you do that? How can you go to bat everyday for a person that you may not know is guilty but you have a pretty good idea that he's not so innocent?' It's a question that defense attorneys answer for themselves by not addressing.
~ David E. Kelley
It's amazing people get so detached from what they eat and what they wear. No one has any contact with how things are made that are put in their body and put in their mouths and I just find it alarming that no one questions it.
~ Emma Watson
Everybody believes that capital punishment is wrong, but when they look at certain cases, they're quick to say, 'Put them to death,' or scream 'capital punishment.'
~ Jeff Lindsay
While people are quick to praise the wisdom of the crowd, being an old-school journalist, I look at the wisdom of the crowd and know it can quickly turn into a mob mentality.
~ Jason Calacanis
If someone a lot quicker than me was running past, I might have pulled his shirt.
~ Scott Parker
If one commits the act of sodomy with a cow, an ewe, or a camel, their urine and their excrements become impure, and even their milk may no longer be consumed. The animal must then be killed and as quickly as possible and burned.
~ Ruhollah Khomeini
Doctors quickly learn that how much they make has little to do with how good they are. It largely depends on how they handle the business side of their practice.
~ Atul Gawande
To try and nick a few quid off the income tax... Why? I am not into that. I don't need that.
~ Harry Redknapp
A consensus politician is someone who does something that he doesn't believe is right because it keeps people quiet when he does it.
~ John Major
We seem to live in an age where we are quietly appalled by the idea of appetites, whether they be for sex, food or diamonds.
~ Jojo Moyes
When I was practicing psychology, I used to tell myself if I ever get to where I'm just doing this for the money or I'm just going through the motions, I'll quit.
~ Phil McGraw
If you know you're just fighting for the money and you're not fighting for the championship, you're going to lose, so I thought, 'It's time for me to quit.'
~ Joe Calzaghe
What's wrong with social climbing? What's wrong with trying to improve your lot in life? And if you do, what happens if your family doesn't? Is that betraying your roots? Are you being dishonest? I had a really good job, and it paid really well. Am I supposed to quit it out of loyalty to my parents?
~ Jeannette Walls
When I became the CM in 2002, I had to quit the boards of some institutions, where I was a member.
~ Amarinder Singh
I'd rather quit and leave all the money on the table than play at a poor level.
~ Joey Votto
I'm perfectly happy to eat organic food, but if I choose to pay more for it, I don't pat myself on the back ethically. Quite the reverse. I think I'm actually being quite greedy, because what I'm doing is essentially saying, 'I want more land to be devoted to growing my food.'
~ Matt Ridley
I don't go around saturated in guilt or anything like that. I do worry about things quite a lot, but I don't feel as though I am a bad person.
~ Louis Theroux
Planned Parenthood's bottom line is number. And, with abortion as its primary money-maker, that means implementing a quota.
~ Abby Johnson
The greatest men, you can quote for everything.
~ John Dalberg-Acton
Anyone who faults Romney or Obama or any public figure for demanding quote approval is missing the point. The journalists were no abused weaklings here. They made a bargain for access to these newsworthy figures that they thought was in their favor - they're only complaining because they got caught.
~ Ryan Holiday
I figure no matter what interview I do, the real good 'journalists' are going to find the completely irrelevant quotes that will drum up some controversy and stick it on their page to get some clicks and completely miss the real context of what the interview is about. That's what we do nowadays and call it 'journalism.'
~ Austin Aries