Quotes About Ethics In Government

#1. Ethics in government has always been important to me.

Chris Bell

#2. I am not robbed by people who have more money than me. I am robbed by a government that wants to penalize my industry and give increasing portions of what I earn to people who do not emulate my principles, morals and ethics.

Cal Thomas

#3. It was a temporary state of grace, this upwelling of suspense and happiness, but I knew that every feeling I'd ever had was and would be temporary.

Christine Sneed

#4. The government is ethics rape in perpetuity

Stefan Molyneux

#5. Because I cannot flatter and look fair,
Smile in men's faces, smooth, deceive, and cog,
Duck with French nods and apish courtesy,
I must be held a rancorous enemy.

William Shakespeare

#6. Live the law of love. We encourage obedience to the laws of life when we live the laws of love.

Stephen Covey

#7. Convinced as I am and as I am from my government that the world needs a new moral architecture over all I believe that this should be the first topic to debate in our world of today, ethics, moral.

Hugo Chavez

#8. If 10 percent of the population were to take a consciously ethical outlook on life and act accordingly, the resulting change would be more significant than any change of government,

Peter Singer

#9. Okay," she said. "I'm going to start with four basic principles of civilization. 1) Ethics is based on consent. 2) Victims shall not mete out justice themselves. 3) Government serves the will of the people. 4) Giant unwashed beards are gross.

Zach Weinersmith

#10. We know enough to know that all of this is not quite right. And we know enough to know that settling for what's not quite right is quite wrong.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#11. We'd do well to remember that at the end of the day, the law doesn't defend us; we defend the law. And when it becomes contrary to our morals, we have both the right and the responsibility to rebalance it toward just ends.

Edward Snowden

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

Sherwin B. Nuland

#13. 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.

Karen Hughes

#14. The word "rights", is something that governments need to provide you and protect you from but, the governments are the basic violators of all human rights.

Stefan Molyneux

#15. The moral is that the shape of a society must depend on the ethical nature of the individual and not on any political system however apparently logical or respectable.

William Golding

#16. Government is a gun that shoots money at your enemy and blows up in your face.

Stefan Molyneux

#17. Do you know what a magical kingdom is in your ear? A fairy cave leads to an Ali Baba doorway, beyond which the bony little ossicles - Malleus, Incus, and Stapes - guard the great snail, Cochlea, to whom God has given the power to transform the indiscernible movement of air into music.

Kristin Chenoweth

#18. I know how you love endings, so I will write one for you.

Michelle Hodkin

#19. [The answer of Solon to the question 'Which is the most perfect popular government?']
That where the least injury done to the meanest individual, is considered as an insult on the whole constitution.

Solon

#20. You want to know what it feels like when my cock is buried deeply inside of you, after my tongue has tasted every fucking bit of you first,

C.D. Reiss

#21. It is reasonable that everyone who asks justice should do justice

Thomas Jefferson

#22. The disappearance of a sense of responsibility is the most far-reaching consequence of submission to authority.

Stanley Milgram

#23. Others may know pleasure, but pleasure is not happiness. It has no more importance than a shadow following a man.

Muhammad Ali

#24. Here's the bottom line: The secret world of intelligence
at least in the United States of America
represents everything wrong with the government, the industrial era, our financial-economic system, and our ethics.

Robert David Steele

#25. Men can be in love with literary figures, with poetic and mythological figures, but let them meet with Artemis, with Venus, with any of the goddesses of love, and then they start hurling moral judgments.

Anais Nin

#26. The question is not, could Utah compete week in and week out in the ACC, SEC, Big Ten, whatever, .. The question is, in a one- game setting, can Utah compete, can Utah get the market share, sell the tickets of one of those more familiar institutions. Nobody knows that answer.

Craig Thompson

#27. Since when do grown men and women, who presume to hold high government office and exercise what they think of as "moral leadership," require ethics officers to tell them whether it is or isn't permissible to grab the secretary's behind or redirect public funds to their own personal advantage?

Meg Greenfield

#28. In poor countries, officials receive explicit bribes; in D.C. they get the sophisticated, implicit, unspoken promise to work for large corporations

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#29. Sometimes I think about dying. And then I wonder about going to hell. And then I think that if and when I go there, the place will be completely organized and run by lost souls, with a council and a works committee and an ethics panel, and I'll feel right at home.

Charles Sheffield

#30. A nation's domestic and foreign policies and actions should be derived from the same standards of ethics, honesty and morality which are characteristic of the individual citizens of the nation.

Jimmy Carter

#31. I consider ethics, as well as religion, as supplements to law in the government of man.

Thomas Jefferson

#32. Ethics must be reintroduced to public service to restore people's faith in government. Without such faith, democracy cannot flourish. Your ambitious agenda is filling a desperate need.

Walter Cronkite

#33. Whenever governments adopt a moral tone - as opposed to an ethical one - you know something is wrong.

John Ralston Saul

#34. Force, governmental coercion, is the instrument by which the ethics of altruism - the belief that the individual exists to serve others - is translated into political reality.

Nathaniel Branden