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GamerGate-promoted outlets fail at grown-up journalistic ethics, and they also fail at the cheap knockoff brand of GamerGate brand ethics, too.

Quotes by Zoe Quinn

My paternal grandfather Rustom Mehta had a huge influence on me because of his ethics and his values.

Quotes by Zarin Mehta

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

Quotes by Wayne Dyer

If the leading Negro classes cannot assume and bear the uplift of their own proletariat, they are doomed for all time. It is not a case of ethics; it is a plain case of necessity. The method by which this may be done is, first, for the American Negro to achieve a new economic solidarity.

Quotes by W. E. B. Du Bois

Corporate executives and business owners need to realize that there can be no compromise when it comes to ethics, and there are no easy shortcuts to success. Ethics need to be carefully sown into the fabric of their companies.

Quotes by Vivek Wadhwa

Even at school I studied ethics instead of religion.

Quotes by Ville Valo

I give importance to work ethics, and there is no shortcut.

Quotes by Vijay Shankar

Our core values and business ethics will always be paramount in all that we do, and we are always looking to do the right thing and settle claims fairly and accurately.

Quotes by Tricia Griffith

I want to better myself with every film. My goal is to be at the highest level someday, and I know I will get there, too. I have strong work ethics.

Quotes by Tiger Shroff

Campaign finance and ethics reform only works if it curtails all special interest groups equally and does not carve out any exceptions to benefit one party or another. 'Pay to play' reform was passed to limit the influence of big spending contractors over the public officials from whom they are trying to obtain work.

Quotes by Thomas Kean, Jr.

In the New Testament, religion is grace and ethics is gratitude.

Quotes by Thomas Erskine

Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.

Quotes by Thomas A. Edison

The first and only principle of sexual ethics: the accuser is always in the wrong.

Quotes by Theodor W. Adorno

There's been a sea change in our focus on corporate ethics. We've made more progress in the last three years than the previous 30.

Quotes by Steve Odland

To have a sense of education and ethics is important.

Quotes by Soleil Moon Frye

Excellent, there's nothing quite like a blunt object to reinforce proper administration ethics.

Quotes by Simon Travaglia

Ethics are pre-determined and a matter of discovery, not a evolved concept.

Quotes by Simon Conway Morris

Even putting aside the Judeo-Christian morality upon which the Constitution and our nation's culture are based, the notion of forced euthanasia would contradict the long-held body of medical ethics to which all American doctors must adhere.

Quotes by Sherwin B. Nuland

At times, morality can be dismissed as a matter of personal conscience, no matter how widespread its acceptance. Ethics, on the other hand, arises from societal or group commitments to principia of behavior.

Quotes by Sherwin B. Nuland

The growing professional disciplines of medical ethics and bioethics have had a profound impact on researchers, bedside doctors, associations of physicians, and government.

Quotes by Sherwin B. Nuland

Long regarded as central to the contemporary understanding of medical ethics are four principles that must be satisfied in order to fulfill the requirements of moral decision-making. These principles are autonomy, justice, beneficence, and non-maleficence.

Quotes by Sherwin B. Nuland

The journalistic code of ethics governing the broadcasts requires that opposing views be presented, and that journalists' personal opinions or judgments be left out of factual reporting.

Quotes by Sheri Fink

I want to be proud of this country, but when aspects of our policy don't align with my ethics, I want to protest them and try to change them.

Quotes by Shepard Fairey

I am fully aware that everybody has a right to succeed, and success should be with ethics.

Quotes by Sharad Pawar

One should not treat investors or a person who has set up an industry and is a successful businessman as criminals in this country. I am fully aware that everybody has a right to succeed, and success should be with ethics.

Quotes by Sharad Pawar

I have been committed to carrying out my duties... in accordance with both the letter and spirit of all applicable rules of ethics and canons of conduct.

Quotes by Samuel Alito

My work ethics have been the same whether it's in international cricket, first class, or even club cricket.

Quotes by S. Sreesanth

Voters who disregarded Richard Nixon's involvement in the questionable ethics issue that led to his Checkers speech should not have been surprised when he orchestrated the Watergate cover-up as president.

Quotes by Ronald Kessler

A 2010 report by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, a non-partisan watchdog group, lists eight staffers to Sen. Shelby that left his office to join or create lobbying firms: Ray Cole, Stewart Hall, Richard Roberts, Wesley Ryan Welch, Amelia Blackwood, Phil Rivers, Jennifer Bendall and Geoffrey Gradler.

Quotes by Ron Crumpton

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

Quotes by Roger Spottiswoode

Given what the media have put the country through this past decade, it must come as a surprise to most Americans that the press has a code of ethics.

Quotes by Roger Mudd

The ethics of editorial judgement, however, began to go though a sea change during the late 1970s and '80s when the Carter and Reagan Administrations de-regulated the television industry.

Quotes by Roger Mudd

Having George W. Bush giving a lecture on business ethics is like having a leper give you a facial, it just doesn't work!

Quotes by Robin Williams

Basically, to lead without a title is to derive your power within the organisation not from your position but from your competence, effectiveness, relationships, excellence, innovation and ethics.

Quotes by Robin S. Sharma

Port Royal, Jamaica, was built for pirates. The town had a well-protected harbor, corrupt politicians and townsfolk, and a set of ethics that seemed passed down from Sodom and Gomorrah.

Quotes by Robert Kurson

Whether gods exist or not, there is no way to get absolute certainty about ethics. Without absolute certainty, what do we do? We do the best we can.

Quotes by Richard Stallman

I think we'll go through a period when there's a revival of concern about ethics. After Watergate, we got the Ethics in Government Act, which has a lot of additional regulations.

Quotes by Richard Painter

If ethics is limited to financial conflicts of interest - that's really what I did in the Bush White House - that's a huge problem for me because Trump refused to sell his businesses. We don't know where he's getting his financing.

Quotes by Richard Painter

I've been concerned about ethics in government for a long time. And the problems we've had under President Trump are only indicative of the longer-term problem of the erosion of public office and government.

Quotes by Richard Painter

Ethics knows no party. Those rules should be applied the same in a Republican administration and a Democratic administration.

Quotes by Richard Painter

I grew up in Illinois, went out east to school, and went back to Illinois to teach... Illinois is a great state for ethics.

Quotes by Richard Painter

I have tended to speak out on the issues that are in the purview of my professional expertise - business ethics, corporate ethics, and government ethics.

Quotes by Richard Painter

The key factor is whether the agent is a member of the Association of Authors' Representatives, which screens its members and requires them to uphold a Canon of Ethics.

Quotes by Richard Curtis

Trump is a dust storm of lies and diversions with the bellows of a bully and the greasy ethics of a street-corner hustler.

Quotes by Richard Cohen

More than any other super-hero, 'Spider-Man' presents us with something very local in its ethics. It's not messianic. It's far more tangible.

Quotes by Rhys Ifans

I am a professional, I believe in work ethics, I believe in contracts.

Quotes by Ravi Shastri

What I would like to do is to leave behind a sustainable entity of a set of companies that operate in an exemplary manner in terms of ethics, values and continue what our ancestors left behind.

Quotes by Ratan Tata

The Ecuadorean and Latin American press is not like the European or North American press, which has some professional ethics. They are used to being above the law, to blackmail, to extort.

Quotes by Rafael Correa

Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have a right to do and what is right to do.

Quotes by Potter Stewart

At the descriptive level, certainly, you would expect different cultures to develop different sorts of ethics and obviously they have; that doesn't mean that you can't think of overarching ethical principles you would want people to follow in all kinds of places.

Quotes by Peter Singer

I don't think there's anything in the compromise that means that there's a clash of ethics.

Quotes by Peter Singer

I think ethics is always there; it's not always a very thoughtful or reflective ethics.

Quotes by Peter Singer

I would like us to think about it more explicitly, and not take our intuitions as the given of ethics, but rather to reflect on it, and be more open about the fact that something is an ethical issues and think what we ought to do about it.

Quotes by Peter Singer

More often there's a compromise between ethics and expediency.

Quotes by Peter Singer

There are people who are bound journalistically to a code of ethics that means they can't quote something that isn't sourced, whereas what I do is entirely unsourced. I effectively fictionalise history and yet somehow aim at a greater truth.

Quotes by Peter Morgan

In my time, we served with noble and ethical leaders: Gerry Ford, Bob Michael, John Rhodes, men of impeccable honesty. We didn't have anybody locked up for a violation of ethics.

Quotes by Pete McCloskey

I hope not in works. I hope not in ethics. I hope not in baptisms or church membership. I hope in Christ alone.

Quotes by Paul Washer

For my own part, I abandon the ethics of duty to the Hegelian critique with no regrets; it would appear to me, indeed, to have been correctly characterized by Hegel as an abstract thought, as a thought of understanding.

Quotes by Paul Ricoeur

In Scientology, in the Ethics Conditions, as you go down from Normal through Doubt, then you get to Enemy, and, finally, near the bottom, there is Treason.

Quotes by Paul Haggis

I'm not saying I'm perfect. But I'm someone who analyses and reflects on what I do, whether it's in keeping with the ethics that I talk about in public. That's how I've been all my life.

Quotes by Parvathy

Medicine rests upon four pillars - philosophy, astronomy, alchemy, and ethics.

Quotes by Paracelsus

I worry about Google's data ethics and about the idea of handing over the corpus of my life, but I can't deny that it is exceptional at making sense of my ever-growing photo library.

Quotes by Om Malik

The relations between rhetoric and ethics are disturbing: the ease with which language can be twisted is worrisome, and the fact that our minds accept these perverse games so docilely is no less cause for concern.

Quotes by Octavio Paz

Globalization means that business strategy and business ethics cannot be separated from each other.

Quotes by Ofra Strauss

Is there Gawker ethics? I mean, I guess there's Gawker ethics. It's a dangerous thing to talk about.

Quotes by Nick Denton

Whether I'm reading a national publication or one of my local Chicago newspapers, I don't need to turn too many pages before I stumble upon another scandal. Not only do ethics violations deteriorate the public trust, but they also disrupt and undermine legitimate debate and policy.

Quotes by Mike Quigley

I find this in all these places I've been travelling - from India to China, to Japan and Europe and to Brazil - there is a frustration with the terms of public discourse, with a kind of absence of discussion of questions of justice and ethics and of values.

Quotes by Michael Sandel

My personal code of conduct and compliance with a wide range of government ethics provisions have ensured that I have maintained ethical standards.

Quotes by Michael Madigan

Commerce has changed the ethics of citizenship and the incentives for national service. America now buys private contractors - we used to call them mercenaries - to do the country's fighting.

Quotes by Michael Ignatieff

Don't violate your own code of values and ethics, but don't waste energy trying to make other people violate theirs.

Quotes by Melody Beattie

A highly developed stock exchange cannot be a club for the cult of ethics.

Quotes by Max Weber

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

Quotes by Marty Meehan

My understanding of environmentalism, of the things that radicalize people, of the ethics and effectiveness of different kinds of social protest have definitely become more nuanced and more informed, but they aren't much clearer.

Quotes by Marshall Curry

When I first did 'Empire,' it was a severe break from everything I'd written up to that point, which is all very continuity-driven, super-heroic, and ethics and morals-infused. 'Empire' was a chance to break away from that.

Quotes by Mark Waid

The Office of Congressional Ethics was created to provide more transparency in the House of Representatives. It was a commendable goal.

Quotes by Marcia Fudge

I think I take what you might call a B-movie story, deal with B-movie subjects, and I treat it as if it's an A-movie in terms of my approach, my crew, my actors, my ethics and so on. I guess that's my trademark or one of them, anyway!

Quotes by M. Night Shyamalan

What is frustrating is to have others question my motivation, my ethics, and my history.

Quotes by Louise Linton

The technological way of thinking has infected even ethics, which is supposed to be thinking about the good.

Quotes by Leon Kass

There's nothing like meeting someone's family to get a true sense of them and a reflection of their ethics and personality. It just makes them a more rounded person.

Quotes by Lenora Crichlow

Given the way some fought for the status quo when I authored the new Ethics Code and created the city's first Ethics Commission, we are going to need your strong support to get an even tougher Ethics Code passed this year.

Quotes by Laura Miller

In many ways, our campaign this year will be the same as last time: We're still going to focus on fixing up basics and cleaning up ethics at City Hall.

Quotes by Laura Miller

Now it's time to focus on basics for people in our neighborhoods... and real ethics reform at City Hall.

Quotes by Laura Miller

If your ethics in the military, in your training, is going to be counterminded by a one-hour weekly television show, we've got a really big problem.

Quotes by Kiefer Sutherland

The involuntary character of psychiatric treatment is at odds with the spirit and ethics of medicine itself.

Quotes by Kate Millett

In every project I do, I'm unwilling to compromise my values and morals and ethics. That's very important to me.

Quotes by Kate Gosselin

In the old fairy tales, often a 'moral' was tacked on at the end of the story - say, if a book was going to be marketed to young readers. And the morals don't really suit the stories at all, which makes them super weird - part of why I love the tradition so much. I do play with this, though I am more concerned with ethics than morals.

Quotes by Kate Bernheimer

Anytime you do something in this arena, whether it's public records or ethics, it's not like throwing a stone in a quiet pond. It's like throwing a boulder.

Quotes by Kate Brown

Most public officials work hard to serve the public good and abide by Oregon's ethics laws.

Quotes by Kate Brown

We need a sweeping debate about ethics, boundaries, and regulation for location data technologies.

Quotes by Kate Crawford

Ethics are not necessarily to do with being law-abiding. I am very interested in the moral path, doing the right thing.

Quotes by Kate Atkinson

For the year after I left government service, I worked as a consultant to the Republican National Committee because the lawyers advised that was the proper way for me to comply with ethics regulations and continue to advise the President.

Quotes by Karen Hughes

Banks need to think through their ethics very carefully, and many have done so. I don't know any bank that dismisses the concept of ethical banking.

Quotes by Justin Welby

I believed in the Catholic position, the Catholic view of ethics and aesthetics, for a long time. But I wanted something not intellectual, some conviction not mental - in fact I wanted faith.

Quotes by Joyce Kilmer

Meaningful ethics reform is vital to restoring public confidence in Missouri's political system.

Quotes by Josh Hawley

I've handled colour as a man should behave. You may conclude that I consider ethics and aesthetics as one.

Quotes by Josef Albers

One concept corrupts and confuses the others. I am not speaking of the Evil whose limited sphere is ethics; I am speaking of the infinite.

Quotes by Jorge Luis Borges

There is a concept that is the corrupter and destroyer of all others. I speak not of Evil, whose limited empire is that of ethics; I speak of the infinite.

Quotes by Jorge Luis Borges

'V-Wars' is a head-on collision of real-world science, terrorism, special forces action, ethics, politics and an exploration of what defines us as human.

Quotes by Jonathan Maberry

When people ask me about what I learned from martial arts, I don't talk about favorite punches or kicks, or about fights won or lost. I talk about learning self-discipline, about ethics and manners and benevolence and fairness.

Quotes by Jonathan Maberry

My dad, he would go through these periods of self-doubt. We'd do something that was controversial or that wasn't welcomed by everybody, and he'd go, 'Well, Shirley, our parents cursed us with ethics, and we passed it on to our children.'

Quotes by John Wesley Shipp

When you go to the polls, ethics and morality should be part of the evaluation.

Quotes by John Shimkus

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