Quotes About Integrity

I can be a teddy bear, but more people tend to see me as the other side of the coin, and that has to do with casting, more Iago than Hamlet. But I don't play villains; I play people doing the right thing for the circumstances and time.

Unalloyed heroes and unalloyed villains make me suspicious.

Every character, before they are heroes or villains, they are human beings.

I am not necessarily my clients. I will seek to defend them, to vindicate their rights but that doesn't mean that I necessarily think that what they did was proper.

The truth is the Vintage Vitor never left.

Words without deeds violates the moral and legal obligation we have under the genocide convention but, more importantly, violates our sense of right and wrong and the standards we have as human beings about looking to care for one another.

It was a department where you had honesty and integrity stamped right on you when you came into the Los Angeles Police Department. If you violated that, or if you were a dishonest cop, you were terrible. We got rid of you as quickly as possible.

I don't want to do anything that violates my own personal code of ethics and morals.

You do not have to be convicted or even charged of a crime to be able to demonstrate that you've violated a personal conduct policy, and reflect poorly not only on themselves, but all of their teammates, every NFL player in the league, and everyone associated with the NFL.

I'm a very caring and loving person and I would defend anybody's honor who's been violated.

Just because people are in authority, if it doesn't seem right, don't do it. If it violates your own principles, don't do it.

I haven't, in the 23 years that I have been in the uniformed services of the United States of America, ever violated an order - not one.

Selling drug secrets violates a trust that is fundamental to the integrity of both scientific research and our financial markets.

When you go with individuals who have violated the Constitution in any fashion, you have sold your soul to them.

I think when you're working with a character that another writer is acting as - for lack of a better word - custodian of, your obligation as a professional is to not do anything that violates that 'primary' take.

You cannot strengthen the law by violating the law.

You can compromise without violating your principles, but it is nearly impossible to compromise when you turn principles into ideology.

I can say that I have not done any culpable violation of the constitution.

The work of woman is not to lessen the severity or the certainty of the penalty for the violation of the moral law, but to prevent this violation by the removal of the causes which lead to it.

I believe that any violation of privacy is nothing good.

Because I grew up with this naive expectation of people doing right, I get shocked by every little violation.

My faith sometimes burdens me with the responsibility to think very deeply and long and hard about the choices I make creatively. There are projects I turn down because the material is too much a violation of what I believe. But that's true of anybody.

Even if torture works, what is the point of 'defending' America using a tactic that is a fundamental violation of what America ought to mean?

I believe myself to have been a reasonable prosecutor, and when the facts and evidence show a criminal violation has been committed, the individuals involved should not dictate whether the case is prosecuted.