Quotes About Ethics

I want to go to bed richer than when I woke up. The pursuit of wealth is a wonderful thing, but the thing is you have to be honest about it, you have to tell the truth.

Being virtuous is wonderful thing, but feeling virtuous is a shortcut to vice.

I started growing up in a hurry and taking a lot of the philosophy I'd heard from church as a kid a lot more seriously - especially the Ten Commandments - and wondering how 'Thou shalt not kill' could be so absolutely ignored. It took me until I was in my 40s to write what I was thinking as a young soldier.

A child who does not think about what happens around him and is content with living without wondering whether he lives honestly is like a man who lives from a scoundrel's work and is on the road to being a scoundrel.

People who exploit others come to spend an enormous amount of energy wondering about and justifying that exploitation.

When we started out, I kept wondering, what are the rules of philanthropy? And it turns out that there are rules for it. And nobody could talk about that. There is no set formula for this because anything with a human being cannot have a formula.

Can you imagine if it was like that: everything you're doing as you grow up you're wondering, 'What is that going to mean if I ever end up being a politician?' You wouldn't have anybody except ruthlessly ambitious automatons going into politics.

We've got technological wonders around us, and we've used them to abrogate all responsibility for everything in our lives.

In 'Seven Ancient Wonders,' Jack West and his team break someone out of Guantanamo Bay. I'm not going to preach to people and say, 'Guantanamo Bay, bad', but I will have my hero go and break somebody out of it, and maybe people will think about it that way.

We don't woo our wives with clubs. We don't leave old folks on ice floes. And maybe the time has come to quit diving into rip tides to save people we don't know. We've outgrown a lot of survival-of-the-fittest strategies, and risking our lives for strangers might be one of them.

Infringe upon the rights of no one. Borrow no tool but what you will return according to promise. Take no wood, nor anything else but what belongs to you - and if you find anything that is not your own, do not hide it away, but report it, that the owner may be found.

I judge a man by the way he treats people who don't count. Woody Hayes was nice to a lot of people he couldn't ever use.

I don't think Mia should go on adopting children, and I think that all her adoptions should have been a warning signal to Woody when he met her.

I would say that I'm not a fan at all of Woody Allen's.

There are some things that other people just don't want to forgive you for. For instance, Woody Allen and Soon-Yi.

Obviously, if Woody Allen calls and says he wants you to read a script, of course you read it.

Woody Allen - legally, ethically, personally - was absolutely a father in our family.

I'd still like to work with Woody Allen.

I don't really believe in trying to erase every Woody Allen movie from history. For one thing, that's kind of unfair to all the people who worked on those movies or albums or whatever it is. What did they do wrong to have their work erased from culture?

I don't wear leather, wool, or silk.

The calling of the humanities is to make us truly human in the best sense of the word.

Place me behind prison walls - walls of stone ever so high, ever so thick, reaching ever so far into the ground. There is a possibility that in some way or another I may be able to escape. But stand me on that floor and draw a chalk line around me and have me give my word of honor never to cross it. Can I get out of that circle? No. Never.

All you have in business is your reputation - so it's very important that you keep your word.

Liberty is a word which, according as it is used, comprehends the most good and the most evil of any in the world.