Urban Meyer Quotes

You can't be the director of education and plagiarizing.

That's one thing: When I left Notre Dame, when I left every school, what I'm the proudest of is we never compromised the rules, never were on probation, never had any major problems of any kind.

Long regarded as central to the contemporary understanding of medical ethics are four principles that must be satisfied in order to fulfill the requirements of moral decision-making. These principles are autonomy, justice, beneficence, and non-maleficence.

Of course art world ethics are important. But museums are no purer than any other institution or business. Academics aren't necessarily more high-minded than gallerists.

Both politicians and journalists face situations which strain their honesty and humanity. My opinion is that politicians on the average stand up somewhat better than journalists.

Corporate executives and business owners need to realize that there can be no compromise when it comes to ethics, and there are no easy shortcuts to success. Ethics need to be carefully sown into the fabric of their companies.

The discipline of the written word punishes both stupidity and dishonesty.

I often think that the prime directive for me as a teacher of writing is akin to that for a physician, which is this: do no harm.

It's a matter of the heart... I take teaching at Harvard very seriously and supervision of my students very seriously. Harvard should have a bona fide commitment to me.

Intellectual honesty is the quality that the public in free countries always has expected of historians; much more than that it does not expect, nor often get.

A license to practice law is not a license to violate it.

To have a sense of education and ethics is important.

I've participated in meetings where there were concerns by ethical experts. There is no clear solution.

I don't believe in firing professors. They have academic freedom.

Fudging the data in any way whatsoever is quite literally a sin against the holy ghost of science. I'm not religious, but I put it that way because I feel so strongly. It's the one thing you do not ever do. You've got to have standards.

Membership in the bar is a privilege burdened with conditions.

If a tech journalist needs financial security before doing what their conscience dictates, I'm not sure they should be calling themselves journalists at all.

Well, there is an attorney-client privilege here that needs to be respected, and it's a privilege that has been found to be worthy of protection by our courts.

If I am going to pick and choose the laws I defend, I wouldn't be doing my duty as attorney general.

A trustee is held to something stricter than the morals of the market place. Not honesty alone, but the punctilio of an honor the most sensitive, is then the standard.

Does it really matter that a few find a way to cheat .... should these isolated incidents justify chipping away at the whole system? The small indiscretions can be tolerated; the sanctioning of nationwide neglect of our own cannot.

A public school teacher occupies a position of great trust, with potentially great influence over young people whose attendance is compulsory. A person should not be allowed to take advantage of such a position to promote his or her own—or any—religion.

The legal and ethical issues are just beginning.

It won’t go over with the WASPS. They take a dim view of looking over your shoulder at someone else’s exam paper. They go in more for stealing from stockholders and banks.

If the board of trustees have the manliness to dismiss me for cause, and declare the cause, I prefer that they should do it. No power on earth could persuade me to resign.