Quotes About Ethics

I try to be honest. I try to take the high road. That's all I can do.

I don't get to live by different rules. The same boundaries that apply to everyone apply to me.

Bad guys are complicated characters. It's always fun to play them. You get away with a lot more. You don't have a heroic code you have to live by.

I try my best to live by the principle that if you're going to be telling a story that you didn't live, tell it with as much respect as you can for the people who did live it.

If any civilization is to survive, it is the morality of altruism that men have to reject.

All you can really do is try to be a good person and try to make good decisions and try to survive.

As an old creative industry full of cruelty and moral sense, British journalism once flourished on the imperative that people required the truth in order to survive. But people don't require that now. They want sensation and they want it for nothing.

Illicit trade corrupts corporations and governments alike, allows dictators to survive, and obscures oppression, including modern day slavery.

I will never create a romantic angle to survive on a game show.

The people of the United States are not morally fit to survive.

I never wanted Ford to be a place, like the tobacco industry, where our employees were not proud of coming to work for us. I felt there was a danger of that, should we be marginalized as a major polluter.

The tobacco companies knew quite early on the addictive nature of their product.

What we're now seeing is that big tech is just like any other industry. When push comes to shove, when it affects profit, they make decisions just like an oil or tobacco company would.

Corruption, the greatest single bane of our society today.

To assert in any case that a man must be absolutely cut off from society because he is absolutely evil amounts to saying that society is absolutely good, and no-one in his right mind will believe this today.

Today's investors want to see a positive impact on society and the environment as well as solid financial returns.

If a man would follow, today, the teachings of the Old Testament, he would be a criminal. If he would follow strictly the teachings of the New, he would be insane.

No one today knows what is indecent.

My job is to persuade people to toe the line and play within the laws of the game.

There are a lot of things you do in a supernatural universe that can toe the line and cross the line.

Of course, stuff happens off the ball in any football match. Standing on people's toes, pinching, hair pulling, punching in the back.

I don't ever cross the line. I step right up to it. I put my toes on the line, but I don't ever cross that line. There are some barriers you just don't cross - you don't talk about religion; you don't talk about race. Those are lines I will never cross.

I think good governance and good politics can go together.

I think the bottom line for me and for Newsweek is that there were a lot of - we did retract this specific matter about the Koran and the toilet for the reasons that you just cited.