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Quotes About Ethics

When Jerry Springer thinks you've gone too far, my friends, you have gone too far.
~ Colin Powell
Everybody thinks people who promote PETA don't eat meat, but I think animals were made to be eaten.
~ Dominique Swain
Obama hates selling. He thinks people should just accept the right thing to do.
~ Maureen Dowd
There's a difference between early and late abortions. If you have a late abortion, where the fetus might feel pain, then I think you should have a good reason. Because then you're inflicting pain. As you go through the third trimester, you need to have more serious reasons to end a pregnancy.
~ Peter Singer
I pay about a third in taxes, I give away about a third, and I follow the law.
~ Ray Dalio
If you scapegoat someone, it's a third party that will be aware of it. It won't be you. Because you will believe you are doing the right thing.
~ Rene Girard
Planned Parenthood has amassed a Third Reich-style death count completely legally and while pocketing half a billion dollars a year to do so.
~ Steve Bannon
I have friends of mine that are actors or singers, and they're the classic guys where, they're onstage, and they're like, 'Okay, the blonde in the third row, seat 24, bring her to my dressing room.' I've never, never taken advantage of that, I swear to God.
~ Jaime Camil
There is just as much evil in all of us as there is good. We're all continuously guilty, even if we're not doing it intentionally to be evil. Here we are sitting in luxury hotels, living it up on the the backs of others in the third world. We all have a guilty conscience, but we do very little about it.
~ Michael Haneke
I think any celebrity that adopts a child from a third world country is a fool.
~ Joan Rivers
Often Hollywood crews go into third world countries and I don't believe they behave well.
~ Rachel Weisz
I can imagine people in Third World countries looking at, you know, someone like Hillary Clinton raising $35 million for her presidential campaign that goes to really, you know, nonproductive means, and they see that, and they just - it's just really immoral, I believe.
~ Cindy Sheehan
When it comes to having a central nervous system, and the ability to feel pain, hunger, and thirst, a rat is a pig is a dog is a boy.
~ Ingrid Newkirk
Justice should not admit a public's thirst for pure revenge.
~ James May
Sending Paris Hilton to jail for being the most loathed celeprosy lesion in the history of the species seems like a happening idea at first - forty-five days at Century Regional Detention Center is so the new thirty days at Promises Malibu! But it sets a dangerous precedent to jail celebs just because someone hates them.
~ Rob Sheffield
I was a commercial roofer before this, until about age thirty. I will not work others under me and do not want to work under others.
~ Padgett Powell
In this generation, the issue pressing that question on our consciences is the issue of abortion.
~ Robert Casey
Harriet Washington, in 'Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present,' documents the smallpox experiments Thomas Jefferson performed on his Monticello slaves. In fact, much of what we now think of as public health emerged from the slave system.
~ Greg Grandin
I have a portrait of Saint Thomas More in my office.
~ Andrew Cuomo
The fact that Thomas Jefferson owned slaves doesn't devalue what he wrote.
~ Daniel Hannan
The FBI and the NBA did a thorough investigation, and they both concluded that I did not fix games in the NBA.
~ Tim Donaghy
Corruption has its own motivations, and one has to thoroughly study that phenomenon and eliminate the foundations that allow corruption to exist.
~ Eduard Shevardnadze
Any reports of animal cruelty should be thoroughly investigated and those operators held accountable.
~ Dick Durbin
All those men have their price.
~ Robert Walpole