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Ethically, I think pretty much every code of ethics for doctors suggests that they should not be in an interrogation room, particularly if there's anything coercive or abusive going on. -- Jane Mayer
Ethically, what one generation tolerates the next may treat as normal. -- Mal Fletcher
Ethically and politically it is important to face up to the need for a universal perspective in our divided, multi-cultural, unequal and unjust world. -- Alison Assiter
How do you feel about helicopters?" There was a long pause. "How do you mean? Ethically?" "As a mode of transportation." "Faster than camels, but less sustainable. -- Maggie Stiefvater
The planet's resources are rare; we must consume more ethically and equitably. -- Alain Ducasse
To me, patriotism is about working ethically and wholeheartedly in our chosen field. -- N. R. Narayana Murthy
The major wars that the U.S. became involved in are all ethically defensible. -- Liu Xiaobo
I think Scotland could take a stand in a wonderful way, ecologically and morally and ethically. -- Annie Lennox
If its not done ethically, advertising won't be trusted. If consumers don't trust it, advertising is pointless. -- Jef I. Richards
Examine each question in terms of what is ethically and aesthetically right, as well as what is economically expedient. -- Aldo Leopold
What today's business reality makes clear is that brands cannot survive in a society that is failing economically, socially, ethically, and morally. -- Simon Mainwaring
I'm a feminist, a 21st-century feminist - which means choice and freedom. One has the right to be both glamorous and ethically structured. -- Arielle Dombasle
Our society does not give nearly enough credit to business leaders who create jobs, behave ethically and provide products and services that enhance our lives. -- Mark Skousen
Today, it is research with human embryonic stem cells and attempts to prepare cloned stem cells for research and medical therapies that are being disavowed as being ethically unacceptable. -- Paul Berg
If we value what we've inherited for free - from other women - surely it's right morally and ethically for us to wake up and say, 'I'm a feminist. ' -- Annie Lennox
It is fair to say the New Testament is the most ethically sophisticated of the great scriptures; the proper comparison for the Qur'an is with the Old Testament - against which it holds its own. -- Sebastian Faulks
Purposefully exposing young people to increased risks of major brain problems - even death - for sport is surely even more ethically complicated than sending young people into this same neurological danger zone as soldiers. -- Alice Dreger
The private sector can go forward, if it must, with destruction of embryos for questionable and ethically challenged science. But spend the people's money on proven blood cord, bone marrow, germ cell, and adult cell research. -- Roger Wicker
The most spiritual place you can be in your life is when you're being very real, when you're not allowing everybody and everything to influence your decisions and your moods, and what's morally right or ethically right. -- Meredith Brooks
It's rather naive, apart from being ethically objectionable, to assume that our investigators travel around the country with bags of money trying to bribe witnesses to lie on the witness stand. We just don't operate that way. -- Jim Garrison
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
When you're writing non-fiction, you go as far as you can go, and then ethically you have to stop. You can't go. You can't suppose. You can't imagine. And I think there's something in human nature that wants to finish the story. -- Geraldine Brooks
We don't have enough solid organs for transplantation; not enough kidneys, livers, hearts, lungs. When you get a liver and you have three people who need it, who should get it? We tried to come up with an ethically defensible answer. Because we have to choose. -- Ezekiel Emanuel
The big post-election story if Obama wins the presidency will be in the hands of the ethically embattled Democratic Gov. Rod Blagojevich. He's not very popular, and has a chance to use his power to appoint an Obama replacement as a step in the direction of political rehabilitation. -- Chuck Todd
Can we really believe that we are living a good life, an ethically decent life if we don't do anything serious to help reduce poverty around the world and help save the lives of children or adults who are likely to die if we don't increase the amount of aid we are giving. -- Peter Singer
I'm perfectly happy to eat organic food, but if I choose to pay more for it, I don't pat myself on the back ethically. Quite the reverse. I think I'm actually being quite greedy, because what I'm doing is essentially saying, 'I want more land to be devoted to growing my food.' -- Matt Ridley
It strikes me as a sound, honest statement for a prospective voter to say: 'Look, I haven't given this election a minute's thought, and it's just not fair for me to cancel out the vote of someone who actually gives a damn.' Indeed, it's not just sound and honest - it's the ethically responsible thing to do. -- Jeff Greenfield
I want to make the IKEA of clothes for fat girls and boys. Cheap, affordable, basic - but ethically made. Basics, you know? Like Spanx - I'm still confused as to why retailers haven't ripped them off yet and done it well. It's because they don't understand the basics behind it. I love Spanx. I'm wearing 'em right now! -- Beth Ditto
I no longer do a film for the wrong reasons. I have to be convinced ethically and morally. Both the director and I have to be on the same page. There are just five songs in most films these days, and they have to be amazing. There has to be a twist in the screenplay. The editing has to be crisp. Your hard work should show, but effortlessly. -- Salman Khan
You cannot ask everyone to behave ethically. -- Sepp Blatter
Evil is just . . . so harsh. I prefer ethically unfettered. -- Jessica Minyard
It is important to use all knowledge ethically, humanely, and lovingly. -- Carol Lynn Pearson
The planets resources are rare; we must consume more ethically and equitably. -- Alain Ducasse
To treat others ethically is to act out of concern for their happiness and suffering. -- Sam Harris
If its not done ethically, advertising won't be trusted. If consumers don't trust it, advertising is pointless -- Jef I. Richards
Anger can be a bitterness that devours your soul while righteous indignation is morally driven, it's ethically driven. -- Cornel West
Love is the most ethically consistent experience, because selfishness and altruism no longer seem opposed or in conflict. -- Peter Breggin
In fact, it's the very impersonality of impersonal knowledge that renders such knowledge the most ethically potent of all. -- Rebecca Goldstein
First, there is the law. It must be obeyed. But the law is the minimum. You must act ethically. -- Buck Rodgers
Modernity needs to understand that being rich and becoming rich are not mathematically, personally, socially, and ethically the same thing. -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
I do not agree that NIMBYism is wrong morally. I believe that NIMBYism is wrong ethically. It's a personal choice. -- Chicken John
I regard it as ethically unacceptable and impractical to censor any aspect of trying to understand the nature of our world. -- Lewis Wolpert
Whatever the universal perspective one adopts, it is important to recognise that some form of universalism is politically and ethically necessary. -- Alison Assiter
The dream unites the grossest contradictions, permits impossibilities, sets aside the knowledge that influences us by day, and exposes us as ethically and morally obtuse. -- Sigmund Freud
Anyone who gets his or her political news primarily from the New York Times (which made the ethically challenged carpetbagger Hillary a senator) is a fool. -- Camille Paglia
Religiously the Empire was pluralistic and marked by a search for a faith which would be satisfying intellectually and ethically and would give assurance of immortality. -- Kenneth Scott Latourette
You will never win if you don't deal with your work ethically. All that you need to do is to stick to your principles; morals are relative. -- Ranveer Singh
Conservation is ethically sound. It is rooted in our love of the land, our respect for the rights of others, our devotion to the rule of law. -- Lyndon B. Johnson
It is more than enough to be an ethically and an evolutionarily developed human being. All other titles and identities of man are inferior to this fact! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
Infosys was going to be a different type of company. It was going to be very ethically run, meritocratic, quality-conscious, transparent. People didn't confuse the personal with the corporate. -- Nandan Nilekani
Virtually every major technological advance in the history of the human species - back to the invention of stone tools and the domestication of fire - has been ethically ambiguous. -- Carl Sagan
I generally think the president [Donald Trump] should get his Cabinet picks, unless they're egregiously out of the range, either ethically or intellectually out of the range of what's acceptable. -- David Brooks
The widespread assumption that ethical behavior takes the fun out of life is false. In actuality, living ethically ensures that relationships in our lives, including encounters with strangers, nurture our spiritual growth. -- bell hooks
I've gone through a lot of different phases on what I do and why I do it - morally and ethically. I've tortured myself about it, especially in dealing with success and money. -- Daria Werbowy
Writing non-free software is not an ethically legitimate activity, so if people who do this run into trouble, that's good! All businesses based on non-free software ought to fail, and the sooner the better. -- Richard Stallman

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