Unethical Quotes

• 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

  Truth, Differences, Marketing

  Discovery (published 1964).

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• 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

  Law, Justice, Cowardice

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• 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

  Lying, Liars, Coward

  "Science of Survival". Book by L. Ron Hubbard, 1951.

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• I consider your conduct unethical and lousy.

  Peter Arno

  Cartoon caption, Peter Arno's Parade (1929)

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

  Ivan Boesky

  Funny, Stupid, Thinking

  "Den of Thieves". Book by James B. Stewart, 1992.

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• 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

  Cloning, Amendments, Breakthrough

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Safety, Drug, Physicians

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• 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

  Dream, Air, Years

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

  Michael Fox

  Selfish, Animal, Men

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• Ethics and power are separate. Ethics and morality. I think life would be miserable if there weren't some kind of code that people operated by, but history is full of many, many people who have gotten power by very unethical means, and people who were very ethical, who get no power, people who have the most brilliant, lovely, wonderful, nice intentions and bring about horrible things in the world because they don't know how to play the power game.

  Robert Greene

  Nice, Mean, Thinking

  Source: bigthink.com

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

  Daniel H. Pink

  Crush, Money, Motivation

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• Karpov, Kasparov, Korchnoi have absolutely destroyed chess by their immoral, unethical, prearranged games. These guys are really the lowest dogs around, and if people knew the truth about them, they would be held in more contempt than Ben Johnson, the runner, and they're going to know the truth when I do this book!

  Bobby Fischer

  Dog, Book, Games

  Bobby Fischer's remarks at the press conference, September 1, 1992.

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• 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

  Giving, Establishment, Middle

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

  Saul Alinsky

  Mean, Use, Rules For Radicals

  Saul Alinsky (2010). “Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals”, p.26, Vintage

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• 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

  Decision, Would Be, Defining

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

  Amartya Sen

  Growth, Development, Investment

  "Amartya Sen: India's dirty fighter". Interview With Madeleine Bunting, www.theguardian.com. July 16, 2013.

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• 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

  Law, Matter, Congress

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• 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

  Grief, Tools, Looks

  "Rabbit Hole - Aaron Eckhart interview". Interview with Interview with, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• 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

  Country, Support, Leader

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• 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

  Motivation, Organization, Goal

  Daniel H. Pink (2010). “Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us”, p.51, Canongate Books

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• All I am asking is that we follow the golden rule: "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you." This is fundamentally a moral issue, not an economic issue. Given what we know now, it is simply unethical to impose risk of grave damage on future generations just so that we can have a few more consumer products today.

  Ken Caldeira

  Issues, Risk, Growth

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• The recent actions by Kyle Busch are not consistent with the values of M&M'S and we're very disappointed. Like you, we hold those who represent our brand to a higher standard and we have expressed our concerns directly to Joe Gibbs Racing.

  Denny Hamlin

  Sports, Disappointment, Racing

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• I can look back and recognize the things I've done and said that were wrong: unethical, gratuitously hurtful, golden-rule-breaking, et cetera. Sometimes the wrongness was even clear at the time, though not as clear as it is now. But I did these things because I felt the pull of a trajectory, a sense of experience piling up the way it does as you turn the pages of a novel. I would be lying if I said I was a different person now. I am the same person. I would do it all again.

  Emily Gould

  Lying, Hurtful, Doe

  Emily Gould (2010). “And the Heart Says Whatever”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

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• 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

  Would Be, Way, Ethical

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• 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

  Zero, Motivation, Inspiration

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