Ethical Quotes

You're going to be exposed to issues of ethical and unethical behavior. I call this (program) a hot house, a forced learning experience and they have a lot to learn about how to move in that environment. - Jerry Murphy

You might hold an ethical position that it's wrong to lie, but if you have plans for a war in Iraq, and you want to keep them secret for practical reasons - to reduce casualties, perhaps - and someone asks you about those plans, you may need to lie for a 'good' outcome. - Peter Singer

You don't delete it. If they wanted to put in their side of things, that would seem ethically relevant, rather than just omitting it. - Jimmy Wales

You couldn't ethically give these [high] doses by the oral route because of toxicity, and also because of the effect on the immune system. They could potentially depress the immune system and leave the patient open to opportunistic infections that could be fatal. - Dr. Aldo T. Iacono

You can't drive your own agenda, ... Customers drive your agenda for you. Customers cannot be disrupted, period. Oracle is a professional, ethical, large company. They're not going to disrupt any of our customers. - Bruce Cleveland

Yom Kippur is about personal and community transgressions. The fasting remains a compelling element. The purpose of the ritual observance is to change our ethical observance. - Barry Schwartz

Yes, that is a subjective phrase, but I believe every officer that signs it understands its scope. But that's not to mean that the Police Department becomes Big Brother. If your private life adversely or negatively impacts this profession, you're probably committing an ethical transgression. - Wayne Shelor

With the proper revisions, this bill will support the important work that charitable organizations do in every community in our country. It will also advance ethical conduct within the charitable community. - Diana Aviv

With the intrusion, and maybe rightly so, of legal concerns, medical concerns, business concerns, maybe some of that might be changing sports journalism a little bit - and maybe should change. The sports reporters of today - the good ones, anyway, working for good news organizations - shouldn't be held to any less stringent professional and ethical standards than any other journalist. - Tim Wulfemeyer

With 'multimedia' the profound ethical and aesthetic challenge comes from the burden of responsibility that lies with the individual once the constraints on communications are so radically eased if not eliminated. - Kenneth Dyson