Quotes About Ethics

An organization filled with honest, motivated, connected, eager, learning, experimenting, ethical and driven people will always defeat the one that merely has talent. Every time.

I have turned down playing the most despicable people on Earth. I turn it down all the time.

Just as a camera is a sublimation of the gun, to photograph someone is a subliminal murder - a soft murder, appropriate to a sad, frightened time.

The frontier between public and private shifts from time to time and culture to culture.

Reading, reflection and time have convinced me that the interests of society require the observation of those moral precepts only in which all religions agree.

I am a citizen of the world, and I have met, in my time, with so many different sorts of virtue, that I am puzzled, in my old age, to say which is the right sort and which is the wrong.

I've watched my duty, straight an' true, an' tried to do it well; Part of the time kept heaven in view, An' part steered clear of hell.

I figure it's okay to make certain rules, whether or not people despise you for it at the time.

I think that America in general is piratical. Every time we accept a paycheck for doing almost nothing, allowing us to live above the poverty line, we're engaging in piracy.

There is no possible line of conduct which has at some time and place been condemned, and which has not at some other time and place been enjoined as a duty.

There is some virtue in almost every vice, except hypocrisy; and even that, while it is a mockery of virtue, is at the same time a compliment to it.

It is time to stop personal destruction and prying into private lives

Pastime passing excellent, if it he husbanded with modesty.

It's not that I'm racist or anything, because I'm not, but I just don't think we should be wasting our time helping people that are going to die soon anyway.

I don't feel I'm a diva in any way, but, like, I just can't bring myself to reuse eyelashes. I think it's gross. And so I only use them one time. Is that bad? I feel like it's bad!

The last time I didn't sexually harass someone here at the campaign, I didn't pay them $850,000 dollars.

When I was leader of the GLC, by the time I had been in control for three years, the difference in pay between the cleaner and the director general was a four-to-one ratio. I find that attractive.

Morals aren't just for when it's easy, Anita. They aren't morals if you throw them aside every time it's convenient.

Crazy. Karma is a b****. Gets you every time. Its not good to wish bad on anybody. God sees everything!

I think no matter what, science can provide a force for good, fundamentally. Over time, like all things, it's open to abuse.

On the occasion of every act ask thyself, How is this with respect to me? Shall I repent of it? A little time and I am dead, and all is gone.

Be not as one that hath ten thousand years to live; death is nigh at hand: while thou livest, while thou hast time, be good.

My only fear is doing something contrary to human nature - the wrong thing, the wrong way, or at the wrong time.

One can acquire some virtues by feigning them for a long time.