Ethics : (34)

" As a Jew, I was taught that it was ethically imperative to speak up and to speak out against arbitrary state violence. That was part of what I learned when I learned about the Second World War and the concentration camps. " - Judith Butler

" If it were a fact, it wouldn’t be called intelligence. " - Donald Rumsfeld

" I had good parents. My mother had morals and standards and she brought us up to be good kids – some of the families around were just laws unto themselves, it was really tribal. " - Jimmy Somerville

" I believe that properly regulated research in stem-cell biotechnology will lead to many valuable improvements in medical treatment and that objections on religious or ethical grounds should be vigorously opposed. " - Jed Mercurio

" They have a crystalline sense of right and wrong; it disappears when they walk out the door with their M.B.A. " - Carl Hiaasen

" Ethics and equity and the principles of justice do not change with the calendar. " - D. H. Lawrence

" Political views in the hiring of career attorneys and staff should not be used. If I am asked to do that, I will not allow it. " - Alexander Acosta

" America has lost the moral high ground with the rest of the world, and we have fewer allies as a result. President Bush and his administration have undermined the war on terror by using tactics outlawed by international treaty and condemned by even our closest friends. " - John Olver

" The feelings of the individual are the prime authority in ethics. ‘If it feels good, do it’ is the basic ethical ideal of humanism. " - Yuval Noah Harari

" Our very lives depend on the ethics of strangers, and most of us are always strangers to other people. " - Bill Moyers