Unethical Quotes

#1. What shocked me, and what I wasn't prepared for, was just how brutal and how unethical some people can be in the NFL. I mean, there were some great people, but there were some real snakes, too. I was like, 'Holy cow!' But it made me a better person, and it got me ready for other things.

Terry Crews

#2. If you go to YouTube and look up 'grief' you can find them and it's just an unbelievable tool for an actor to be able to access, without being unethical. It's like accessing the deepest, most painful parts of a person.

Aaron Eckhart

#3. Apparently it was unethical for lawyers to sleep with their clients. This from a man who offered legal representation to assassins.

Carrie Vaughn

#4. A defrocked heretic accountant, Grimm had learned just enough mathemagics to be a nuisance, if not actually dangerous, and had been thrown out of the Accountants' Guild for unethical use of imaginary numbers.

Simon R. Green

#5. Since Congress makes the laws they are under the delusion that anything they do is legal, no matter if it is unwise, unethical, or un-Constitutional.

Jim Babka

#6. Business is an establishment that gives you the legal, even though unethical, right to screw the naive-right, left, and in the middle.

W.C. Fields

#7. Parents are the biggest culprit. In a bid to make their child score high marks, they are willing to indulge in practices that are unethical, like buying projects. They do not realise that such attempts will not make their child brighter or think over ideas.

Arvind Gupta

#8. What I'm doing is writing stories about women who care about justice. They are women who think about the difference between right and wrong, what's legal and illegal, ethical and unethical, moral and immoral.

Lisa Scottoline

#9. You can't flirt with me during a lockdown. My eyes narrow. It's unethical.

Cheyanne Young

#10. The most ethical way to deal with an unethical situation would be to simply say: 'We did something wrong.' But nobody in a family like mine would ever respond like this.

Patti Davis

#11. Man is the most dangerous, destructive, selfish, and unethical animal on earth.

Michael Fox

#12. Responsibility for the unethical experimentation lies first with the individual doctors, but also collectively with the medical profession as a whole, and with academia as a whole.

Colin A. Ross

#13. It is unethical for any man to tax another man's home to fund his social agenda. Friends don't do that, your enemies will.

John Taft

#14. She licked her parched lips, moistening them, preparing them. "You could lose your job."
"You could be expelled."
"It's unethical."
"Dangerous."
His mouth hovered only millimeters over hers. "We doing this?"
She hooked her arms around his neck. "God yes.

Shelly Bell

#15. We all have done something unethical.

John C. Maxwell

#16. I'm very, very pleased to be cleared of any legal wrongdoing ... any hint of any kind of unethical activity there. Very pleased to be cleared of any of that.

Sarah Palin

#17. Standing with the poor means walking away from unethical leaders, even when their companies are 'succeeding.'

Jacqueline Novogratz

#18. I don't see anything immoral, unethical or illegal for a person in a democratic society to be able to spend their own money on the health care of themself or a loved one.

Brian Day

#19. Normal people have rock collections, shell collections, key ring collections and stamp collections. (The Captain had even known somebody with a letterbox collection.) But a people collection? That had to be the most bizarre one he'd come across. Not to mention the most unethical.

Elizabeth Newton

#20. I wouldn't suggest that being resourceful has anything to do with doing something illegal or unethical, but I've definitely noticed a pattern of being 'creative.'

Scott Weiss

#21. An ethical action, like an unethical action, is usually analyzed by politicians purely in pragmatic terms.

Adam Michnik

#22. It struck me then, for the first time, how unethical anxiety is, how it voids the reality of other people by conscripting them as palliatives for your own fear.

Adam Haslett

#23. I think "immoral" is probably the wrong word to use ... I prefer the word "unethical."

Ivan Boesky

#24. Hey, Dad, if I needed to check someone's background, would you be able to do that for me?"
"That's a little unethical, Liv." John smoothed his mustache. "Is this about a boy?"
Livia cringed. "Yeah, it is."
"Then absolutely. I'd be happy to.

Debra Anastasia

#25. I consider your conduct unethical and lousy.

Peter Arno

#26. I could see that making judgments about people so that they are tried and sentenced in your head, without asking them for their perspective, is both unethical and unproductive. So I learned to love real integrity and to despise the lack of it.

Ray Dalio

#27. The first time I spoke publicly about the Stanford Prison Experiment, Stanley Milgram told me: Your study is going to take all the ethical heat off of my back. People are now going to say yours is the most unethical study ever, and not mine.

Philip Zimbardo

#28. While that amendment failed, human cloning continues to advance and the breakthrough in this unethical and morally questionable science is around the corner.

Mike Pence

#29. Because every exchange is always a relationship, to get the most while giving the least is unjust, unethical, antisocial, abusive, perhaps 'evil.' Yet predatory commerce ("the free market" as it is euphemistically called) operates regularly on the principle of 'get the most and pay the least.

James Hillman

#30. While toxic food is bad for your health and well-being, so are negative and unethical people.

Frank Sonnenberg

#31. Forget your environmental footprint. Think about your ethical footprint. What good is it to build a zero-carbon, energy efficient complex, when the labor producing this architectural gem is unethical at best?

Cameron Sinclair

#32. Economic growth without investment in human development is unsustainable - and unethical

Amartya Sen

#33. Everything we get from whales can be obtained without cruelty. Causing suffering to innocent beings without an extremely weighty reason for doing so is wrong, and hence whaling is unethical.

Peter Singer

#34. As FIFA leaked information to the media, portraying me as an unethical person, I felt I was left naked, helpless to defend myself, as they repeatedly cut me with a sharp knife.

Chung Mong-joon

#35. Satan uses any means, ethical or unethical, to distract us from trusting in God, drawing us away to trust in ourselves by moving us into fear, into anger, into pride.

J.P. Moreland

#36. I have to say that one of the most important things Scientology has given me is the ability to keep my integrity together. I understand how people can get into unethical situations, and Scientology has always helped me keep my head clear and be in present time.

Danny Masterson

#37. An ethical atheist is infinitely more valuable than an unethical pious! What matters is whether you are ethical or not; your beliefs are utterly trivial beside this matter!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#38. Having knowledge of an unethical act and allowing it to continue can spread a contagion that can affect multiple beings in society

Bertrand Russell

#39. Corporate tax dodging impacts us across generations and over time. It is corrosive. It is unethical. It is unsustainable.

James P. Hoffa

#40. It is meaningless to rise while leaving others behind! It is also unethical and selfish! If you know the paths to rise, rise altogether with others!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#41. The ninth rule of the ethics of means and ends is that any effective means is automatically judged by the opposition as being unethical.

Saul Alinsky

#42. Mr. Speaker, the goal of stem cell research should be to help our fellow human beings. The debate on this issue has, unfortunately, moved into dangerous unethical territory when perfectly moral alternatives exist.

Jim Ryun

#43. Maybe he's got a plan for proving that he was a victim of unethical research practices. Who knows? I can't begin to guess his objectives but I can promise you that there is nothing you or I or modern para-pharmaceuticals can do for him. We can't fix the monsters.

Jayne Ann Krentz

#44. For women especially, virginity has become the easy answer- the morality quick fix. You can be vapid, stupid, and unethical, but so long as you've never had sex, you're a "good" (i.e. "moral) girl and therefore worthy of praise.

Jessica Valenti

#45. Let me be clear: as I have said repeatedly, I do not believe that all police officers are bad, nor do I believe that most are bad. But there must be a transparent, impartial and fair system to judge those that engage in criminal or unethical acts.

Al Sharpton

#46. Flesh-eating by humans is unnecessary, irrational, anatomically unsound, unhealthy, unhygienic, uneconomic, unaesthetic, unkind and unethical. May I elaborate?

Helen And Scott Nearing

#47. I approach every role with the same commitment because I'm being paid for it. To not do so would be unethical.

Anupam Kher

#48. So why in the world would anyone support the unethical, failed use of embryonic stem cells instead of the ethical, successful use of adult stem cells? Because they do not know the difference.

Virginia Foxx

#49. Goals may cause systematic problems for organizations due to narrowed focus, unethical behavior, increased risk taking, decreased cooperation, and decreased intrinsic motivation. Use care when applying goals in your organization.

Daniel H. Pink

#50. I wonder if it would be unethical for me to turn James Marsters? And then force him to fake the Cockney accent? And then make him my love monkey?

Molly Harper

#51. There is a point at which the law becomes immoral and unethical. That point is reached when it becomes a cloak for the cowardice that dares not stand up against blatant violations of justice.

Kurt Huber

#52. To be ethical, never think of anything unethical. To be moral, never hurt anyone.

Debasish Mridha

#53. If you are earning your money through violence, all this money is unethical, because violence and ethics cannot be together!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#54. People deal with all sorts of obstacles at work. There is the fear of failure, plus confrontations with mindless bureaucracy, with other people's egos, with your own ego, with unethical practices, with incompetence, and a wide variety of issues related to race, gender, and sexual orientation

Lodro Rinzler

#55. The morality of a society is often dangerous and very unethical.

Debasish Mridha

#56. I think now we have a very unique opportunity, thanks to the election result, thanks to such a big vote for the Greens, to say you know what, we have to face it. Otherwise this generation will be robbing the next generation of their future, and that's immoral and unethical.

Tim Costello

#57. From a legal perspective, illegal communication
behavior also is unethical, but that which is not specifically illegal is ethical. In

Charles U. Larson

#58. Any attorney with a conscience always speaks the truth. An attorney can and should practice law in a scrupulous manner, but some dishonest attorneys disregard ethical mandates in order to win. Unethical attorneys shape their clients stories, which is a fancy way of assisting them tell a fib.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#59. To be a good detective you must also think like a crook, an immoral, unethical or unlawful person

Robert Kiyosaki

#60. Is it a thorny question of ethics? Or is it the sort of ethical question where the right choice is easy, but the unethical answer is too tempting?

Courtney Milan

#61. Clearly this business of treating minds, particularly this big business of treating young minds, has not policed itself, and has no incentive to put a stop to the kinds of fraudulent and unethical practices that are going on.

Patricia Schroeder

#62. A giant that became the giant through unethical ways is undoubtedly the smallest dwarf ever!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#63. Unethical conduct is actually the conduct of destruction and fear; lies are told because one is afraid of the consequences should one tell the truth; thus, the liar is inevitably a coward, the coward is inevitably a liar.

L. Ron Hubbard

#64. As the old saying goes, you can't spell unprofessional, unethical, or unaccountable without the UN.

Brad Thor

#65. What is the difference between unethical and ethical advertising? Unethical advertising uses falsehoods to deceive the public; ethical advertising uses truth to deceive the public.

Vilhjalmur Stefansson

#66. Reality is negotiable. Outside of science and law, all rules can be bent or broken, and it doesn't require being unethical.

Tim Ferriss

#67. Money can extinguish intrinsic motivation, diminish performance, crush creativity, encourage unethical behavior, foster short-term thinking, and become addictive.

Daniel H. Pink

#68. In the year since we brought things into the open with a clean breath of fresh air at City Hall, we have learned about corrupt spending practices and unethical conflicts of interest that waste your money ... and keep Dallas from being the great city of our dreams.

Laura Miller

#69. Scientists surely have a special responsibility. It is their ideas that form the basis of new technology. They should not be indifferent to the fruits of their ideas. They should forgo experiments that are risky or unethical.

Martin Rees

#70. If you replace a soldier with a machine, you take away the possibility of the soldier or the policeman to not do something the state asks of him. He may think it's unethical to do it. A machine doesn't have that critical perspective.

Jose Padilha

#71. The most unethical of all means is the non-use of any means.

Saul Alinsky

#72. Rogue internet pharmacies continue to pose a serious threat to the health and safety of Americans. Simply put, a few unethical physicians and pharmacists have become drug suppliers to a nation.

Dianne Feinstein

#73. If a country has a fascist leader, this is a great horror for that country; but there is much greater horror: The existence of ignorant and unethical masses who support that primitive leader!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#74. Knowledge has a great power. Therefore, unethical use of knowledge can be extremely harmful.

Eraldo Banovac

#75. Good relentlessly calls us to accountability, abjectly refusing to hand us free passes for poor choices and unethical decisions.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#76. Indeed, the researchers found that wide-faced men perceived themselves as powerful, and this contributed to their unethical behavior.

Matthew Hertenstein

#77. Even should it be conclusively proved that human beings benefit directly from the suffering of animals, its infliction would nevertheless be unethical and wrong.

Hugh Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding

#78. Where defining foreign policy as 'ethical' went wrong was that it implied that all decisions would be exclusive in every respect of any dealings with unethical regimes.

William Hague

#79. This is who he is. I don't like it any better than any of you do, but frankly he can't help that it's so easy for him to do these things. It's a talent--an unethical one, maybe. But it's who he is. It's why none of us will ever want for anything. You can't vilify him for that.

Meredith Wild

#80. Many family planning clinics and - and programs that service women have refused now to take women's - United State's money because they feel that it would be unethical, and it could injure their clients even more, their patients even more. That has to be changed.

Eleanor Smeal

#81. If you see oppression, violence, injustice and evil deeds, unzip your silence and uncaring indifference, do something and act against all these unethical instances." ~ Angelica Hopes, an excerpt from my novel, If I Could Tell You

Angelica Hopes

#82. I ended your experiment. Because you're not a scientist. You're a monster. I'm not leaving any of them at your mercy.

Rachel Caine