Quotes About Ethics

I think you have to remember to do things for the right reason. Do the right thing, so you can be happy with all your decisions and happy with how spent time in the world.

...One time you take a hundred thousand dollars and let a vampire go, the whole world turns on you like you're some kind of bad guy.

Ethics is a detergent word, used time and time again to clean consciences without scrubbing.

You keep accusing me of blasphemy all of the time, but I cannot be convicted of a victimless crime.

It doesn't matter how many they kill," I told him. "And it's not awesome-it's wrong." "Then why do you talk about them all the time?" asked Max. "Because wrong is interesting.

It is very difficult to make one's way in this world without being wicked at one time or another, when the world's way is so wicked to being with.

At one time there were voiceover artists, now there are celebrity voiceover artists. It's unfortunate because these people need the money less than the voiceover artist.

I was asked to do TV ads for Macintosh. Nowadays, I think anybody would jump at that but, at the time, it didn't feel appropriate for what I was trying to stand for.

Time often serves to justify a deed which seems at first unjustifiable.

I wish we could go back to the time when the private lives of our public figures were relevant only if they directly affected their public responsibilities.

If I went in debt a million dollars every time I committed genocide, I'd be our economy.

Marketers need to spend less time making promises and more time keeping them.

I suppose I'm happy to sell my time and energy, but I'm not happy to sell my initial creative time.

There was open collusion between the Russian players. They agreed ahead of time to draw the games they played against each other. Every time they drew they gave each other half a point.

Can I, just one time, play the good guy?

For a long time, I thought I would like to be a doctor. Such a good profession. So explicitly good. Never a waste of time.

It is time my colleagues got real. All British universities doing worthwhile research use animals, and, instead of hiding, they should be boasting of their achievements.

It is a waste of time to dissipate one's moral zeal in disapproving of royal persons who have mistresses.

Commerce is against morality. Morality is going to lose every time.

So the time line of when we consider a fetus 'human' is arbitrary after conception.

I don't know how a judge can concentrate on being fair and impartial when he or she is faced with possible jail time for making a decision that others deem incorrect.

It's like tabloid news programs that talk about how horrible something is, while at the same time they're glorifying it as their top story.

It seems like everyone's got an agenda, and the agenda seems to be selling magazines or air time with sensational stories.

I'll do what I can to promote the greater good. If you can harm one person to save 1,000, I'm gonna do it every f**king time.