Quotes About Ethics

Is duty a mere sport, or an employ! Life an entrusted talent or a toy!

Man must saturate his daily life in truthful speech, virtuous acts and holy thoughts.

The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.

In the modern-day world, where time is premium and battle for subsistence is unimaginably tough, the hapless common man simply gives in and pays the bribe just to get on with life.

As a straight news correspondent I would never make an issue of someone's personal life unless they have put it out there for public consumption.

You know, I have never had a casting couch proposition in my life. I thought there was something wrong with me.

The guiding principle of my life, 'the means are the ends,' has taught me that our participation in a corrupt system facilitates it and corrupts and therefore defeats us.

Let our lives be pure as snowfields, where our steps leave a mark but no stain.

If you've lived a bad life, they send you to Hell. But if you've been truly wicked, they give you a tour of Heaven first.

The only true hope for civilization-the conviction of the individual that his inner life can affect outward events and that, whether or not he does so he is responsible for them.

There is a set of rules and a code of conduct that I believe that you should adhere to in life.

If a man's public record be a clear one, if he has kept his pledges before the world, I do not inquire what his private life may have been.

What I believe is that we should defend life.

I will happily support anything that protects life.

I hope that we have a culture that values every human life from the moment of conception to the moment of natural death.

Popularity isn't the end-all, be-all. What matters far more is that you stick to your principles, that you stand up and you live a life of integrity.

Business is the real test of the moral life.

It's pretty simple, the ethical life. It's just demanding.

I have a rule: I will not alter the basic history of a real-life character to suit our fictional needs in a big way.

There is no right life in the wrong one.

And man's little Life has Duties that are great, that are alone great, and go up to Heaven and down to Hell.

I'm interested in people that don't always do the right thing, its much more akin to what I know about life.

The bad guys, when they start getting picked off, they're upset that their friends died, too. But that's the thing. That's what life is. It's that weird gray area.

The worst thing in the world that can happen to you if you're an engineer that has given his life to something is for someone to rip it off and put their name to it.