Quotes: Ethics

I came to office promising major ethics reform to end the culture of self-dealing. And today, that ethics reform is a law. While I was at it, I got rid of a few things in the governor’s office that I didn’t believe our citizens should have to pay for. That luxury jet was over-the-top. I put it on eBay.

Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself.

Every aspect of Western culture needs a new code of ethics – a rational ethics – as a precondition of rebirth.

I think the ethics and morals of genetic engineering are very complicated. It intrigues me.

Even at school I studied ethics instead of religion.

We need a tougher enforcement program and, most importantly, we need to fix the badly broken ethics system.

So the next thing I assume I’ll be hearing from Republicans, they want to change rules some way, as they do on the House when you get a problem with ethics, they just change the rules.

Live one day at a time emphasizing ethics rather than rules.

Moralities, ethics, laws, customs, beliefs, doctrines – these are of trifling import. All that matters is that the miraculous become the norm.

I do not believe in immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern with no superhuman authority behind it.