Quotes About Ethics

Normal people, who can be good people but do bad things, are very interesting to me, and people that never get a parking ticket or never do a bad thing in their lives can be really dangerous.

I'm very much against the secondary ticket market. I don't know anyone who isn't.

I don't think that just because people will pay a certain amount for a ticket that it's all right to charge it.

I'm not saying I do evil things. I'm just saying if a cop stops me when I'm speeding, sometimes - not all the time - I might get out of that ticket. Let's just say I don't have any points on my licence in Ireland, and I drive relatively quickly.

I have no problem if you bought a Justin Timberlake ticket and you decide to go sell that ticket to somebody. We would first and foremost want to make sure that the first ticket sold, that the fan has a shot to buy that ticket.

I still believe in putting something out and not asking people to buy the record, then buy a ticket to my show and then buy a t-shirt and then a, like, copy of the show they just saw on CD. That's undignified to me.

Whether it's a speeding ticket or whatever it might be, some of us are trying to get an edge some way or another in life.

Why is it good for football to take the excitement away from fans by overcharging them for tickets to see their team?

We don't have sports tickets, we don't have corporate jets. We don't have stadiums named after us.

I don't hype a fight to sell tickets.

My own personal popularity can have no influence over me when the dictates of my best judgment and the obligations of an oath require of me a particular course. Under such circumstances, whether I sink or swim on the tide of popular favor is, to me, a matter of inferior consideration.

If you tie a man's hands there is nothing moral about his not committing murder.

As for morality, well that's all tied up with the question of consciousness.

I've never been tied to one party or one candidate or even one institution. And that's true even with one church as a Christian. I'm committed to truth and justice.

There's so many issues tied to the meat industry. I mean, social, environmental, humanitarian - all of them. I know that when I'm eating that I'm not hurting the planet, I'm not hurting other people on this planet, I'm not hurting animals... and I'm not hurting nature.

It's a rare pro-lifer who is against the death penalty, who's against all war, who favors, you know, all the things people need to flourish and stay healthy in life. They've tied themselves to the Republican Party, which doesn't support any of that.

Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude.

If you keep more 230 tigers, it's like having 230 children, you don't really love them, you're just collecting them.

I think my morals are perfectly... tight!

SUTRA #10 As far as the laws of existence are concerned, there is no good and bad, no crime and punishment. It is just that for every action, there is a consequence.

instead of being the finest creatures on this planet, we have turned into the worst. We kill for pleasure, for love, for hatred, for identity, for God, for just about anything. Which other animal has unleashed so much wanton cruelty, animosity, and bloodshed on this planet?

If you pardon the things that unfortunate people do, then what of the people killed by his selfish acts? And the people who say he should be the one killed?" ~ Juri

There is nothing evil save that which perverts the mind and shackles the conscience.

Never judge a philosophy by its abuse