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I gravitate toward the law, I think, certainly more times than not, because it's our best mechanism for legislating human behavior, and morality, and ethics. -- David E. Kelley
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. -- Rafael Correa
If you deny that any principles of conduct at all are common to and admitted by all men who try to behave reasonably - well, I don't see how you can have any ethics or any ethical background for law. -- Frederick Pollock
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. -- Sarah Palin
I think that the question is very clear-cut, not only as a matter of ethics, but also as a matter of law, that a lawyer should not be aiding and abetting in a fraudulent scheme, and part of that aiding and abetting would be to draw up subsequent documents in order to conceal the true nature of the scheme from federal investigators. -- Viet D. Dinh
In civilized life, law floats in a sea of ethics. -- Earl Warren
Ethics is doing more than the law requires and less than the law allows. -- Michael Josephson
I consider ethics, as well as religion, as supplements to law in the government of man. -- Thomas Jefferson
Modernity has replaced ethics with legalese, and the law can be gamed with a good lawyer. -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
To respect law, a man carries mercy with his endeavours. To respect ethics, he moves on wasteful relationships. -- Harshit Walia
Ethics are not necessarily to do with being law-abiding. I am very interested in the moral path, doing the right thing. -- Kate Atkinson
Business ethics has always had problems that are distinct from those of other professions, such as medicine, law, engineering, dentistry, or nursing. -- Peter Singer
In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so. -- Immanuel Kant
With its continued dismissal of the law of God in ethics, Fundamentalism expressed both a spiritualized form of situational ethics and a Christianly submissive statism. -- Greg L. Bahnsen
Religion is never more tested than when our emotions are ablaze. At such a time, the timeless grandeur of the Law and its ethics stand at our mercy. -- Timothy Winter

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