Quotes About Ethics

Any time the character is in a moral quandary is interesting. That's been true from the Greeks on down.

There's no black and white in this world; it's all grey. That's what people are like! No one think they're a baddie. Everyone thinks they're trying to do their bit to make the world a better place.

Cops and criminals aren't that different. They just play by different sets of rules. And the lines get blurred. There's no such thing as 'right' and 'wrong.' There's always a grey area. There are always hypocrisies.

I was like the good girl, bad girl, there were no grey areas for me.

I felt the script of 'Shivajinagara' was perfect as my character is that of a good guy with shades of grey.

It's challenging playing grey characters because there's no right way and you get to make your own rules.

The great thing about 'Mirzapur' is that no one character is clear black or white, every character is working in a grey shade.

The beauty about the 'Mahabharat' is that every character has shades of grey.

I have no complaints from my characters, be it in 'Commando' or 'Gangs of Wasseypur' everyone on those films was grey.

Conservatives should defend free speech - but we must not amplify it when it's blatantly grotesque.

Some guys like to fight on even playing grounds, and some guys like to cheat.

There is an ever-widening gap between what science allows and what we should actually do. There are many doors science can open that should be kept closed, on prudential or ethical grounds.

I work with a group called Compassion & Choices in California. It's attempting to get death with dignity legalised in California, the idea being that so goes California, so goes the rest of the U.S., at least.

I always divide people into two groups. Those who live by what they know to be a lie, and those who live by what they believe, falsely, to be the truth.

Right-to-life groups won't fund us because we're Democrats.

It's the most ridiculous business to be in. It's full of people who have never grown up.

If we say yes to something we believe is wrong now, what guarantee is there that the wrong will not be further exacerbated down the line?

The right to procreate is not guaranteed, explicitly or implicitly, by the Constitution.

Good actions are a guard against the blows of adversity.

Perchance the chemist is already damned and the guardian the blackest.

I don't believe in collective guilt, but I do believe in collective responsibility.

I find that people... very few people think that what they're doing is bad, and usually the people who think what they're doing is bad it has more to do with guilt.

Lie detectors sometimes work because people believe they work, deterring the wrong people from applying for jobs in the first place, or prompting admissions of guilt during interrogations.

When I talk about the C.I.A. stuff, I feel guilt because I left. I really believed in that job, and my colleagues are still there. But I have kids now.